Package org.hibernate.persister.collection

This package abstracts the persistence mechanism for collections.

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Description

Interface Summary

CollectionPersister	A strategy for persisting a collection role.
QueryableCollection	A collection role that may be queried or loaded by outer join.
SQLLoadableCollection

Class Summary

AbstractCollectionPersister	Base implementation of the QueryableCollection interface.
BasicCollectionPersister	Collection persister for collections of values and many-to-many associations.
CollectionPropertyMapping
CollectionPropertyNames	The names of all the collection properties.
CompositeElementPropertyMapping
ElementPropertyMapping
NamedQueryCollectionInitializer	A wrapper around a named query.
OneToManyPersister	Collection persister for one-to-many associations.

Package org.hibernate.persister.collection Description

This package abstracts the persistence mechanism for collections.

Concrete implementations of CollectionPersister define strategies for persistence of particular collection roles. Collection persisters may optionally implement QueryableCollection if they should be queryable using HQL or loaded using OuterJoinLoader.