Package org.hibernate.tuple

This package defines a runtime metamodel for entities at the object level and abstracts the differences between the various entity modes.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Instantiator	Contract for implementors responsible for instantiating entity/component instances.
Tuplizer	A tuplizer defines the contract for things which know how to manage a particular representation of a piece of data, given that representation's EntityMode (the entity-mode essentially defining which representation).

Class Summary

Class	Description
Dom4jInstantiator	Performs "instantiation" based on DOM4J elements.
DynamicMapInstantiator
ElementWrapper	Wraps dom4j elements, allowing them to exist in a non-hierarchical structure.
IdentifierProperty	Represents a defined entity identifier property within the Hibernate runtime-metamodel.
PojoInstantiator	Defines a POJO-based instantiator for use from the tuplizers.
Property	Defines the basic contract of a Property within the runtime metamodel.
PropertyFactory	Responsible for generation of runtime metamodel Property representations.
StandardProperty	Represents a basic property within the Hibernate runtime-metamodel.
VersionProperty	Represents a version property within the Hibernate runtime-metamodel.

Package org.hibernate.tuple Description

This package defines a runtime metamodel for entities at the object level and abstracts the differences between the various entity modes. It is unaware of mappings to the database.

(This package is still undergoing maturation and will change over the next few months.)