Introduction to JDBC

JDBC stands for Java Database Connectivity allows developers to connect, query and
update a database using the Structured Query Language. JDBC API standard provides Java
developers to interact with different RDBMS and access table data through Java application without
learning RDBMS details and using Database Specific JDBC Drivers.

JDBC Architecture : JDBC makes the interaction with RDBMS simple and intuitive. When a Java application needs to
access database:
open connection to database,
use JDBC driver to send SQL queries to database,
process the results that are returned, and
close the connection.

JDBC uses two architectures to communicate with database :

The driver connects to database and executes SQL statements. Results are sent back from
driver to driver manager and finally to the application.

The JDBC driver communicates with ODBC driver. ODBC driver executes SQL query and then
results are sent back to JDBC driver to driver manager and then to application.

General steps:
1. Load the RDBMS specific JDBC driver because this driver actually communicates with the
database.
2. Open the connection to database which is then used to send SQL statements and get results
back.
3. Create JDBC Statement object. This object contains SQL query.
4. Execute statement which returns resultset(s). ResultSet contains the tuples of database table
as a result of SQL query.
5. Process the result set.
6. Close the connection.
Example:
Retrieve list of student from STUDENT table using JDBC.
String url = jdbc:odbc: + dbName;
List list = new ArrayList();

/* load the jdbc-odbc driver */

class.forName(sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver);

/* Open a connection to database */

Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url);

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/* create Statement object */

Statement stmt = con.createStatement();

/* execute statement */
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM STUDENT");
while ( rs.next() )
{
Student eb = new Student();
eb.setSno(rs.getLong(sno));
eb.setSname(rs.getString("sname"));
eb.setAge(rs.getFloat("age"));
list.add(eb);
}

Introduction to Hibernate
Hibernate is an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) solution for JAVA. It is a powerful, high
performance object/relational persistence and query service. It allows us to develop persistent
classes following object-oriented idiom including association, inheritance and polymorphism.
5. Hibernate Architecture
Hibernate:
1) itself opens connection to database,
2) converts HQL (Hibernate Query Language) statements to database specific statement,
3) receives result set,
4) then performs mapping of these database specific data to Java objects which are directly used by
Java application.
Hibernate uses the database specification from Hibernate Properties file. Automatic mapping is
performed on the basis of the properties defined in hbm XML file defined for particular Java object.
General steps:
1. Load the Hibernate configuration file and create configuration object. It will automatically load all
hbm mapping files.
2. Create session factory from configuration object
3. Get one session from this session factory.
4. Create HQL query.
5. Execute query to get list containing Java objects.

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Example:
Retrieve list of student from STUDENT table using Hibernate.

/** Load the hibernate configuration file */

Configuration cfg = new Configuration();
cfg.configure(CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION);

/** Create the session factory */

SessionFactory sessionFactory = cfg.buildSessionFactory();

/** Retrieve the session */

Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();

/** create query */

Query query = session.createQuery("from testbean.Student);

/** execute query and get result in form of Java objects */

List list = query.list();

Why is Hibernate better than JDBC

1)

Relational Persistence for JAVA

Working with both Object-Oriented software and Relational Database is complicated task with
JDBC because there is mismatch between how data is represented in objects versus
relational database. So with JDBC, developer has to write code to map an object model's data
representation to a relational data model and its corresponding database schema. Hibernate is
flexible and powerful ORM solution to map Java classes to database tables. Hibernate itself
takes care of this mapping using XML files so developer does not need to write code for this.

2)

Transparent Persistence
The automatic mapping of Java objects with database tables and vice versa is called
Transparent Persistence. Hibernate provides transparent persistence and developer does not
need to write code explicitly to map database tables tuples to application objects during
interaction with RDBMS. With JDBC this conversion is to be taken care of by the developer
manually with lines of code.

3)

Support for Query Language

JDBC supports only native Structured Query Language (SQL). Developer has to find out the
efficient way to access database, i.e to select effective query from a number of queries to
perform same task. Hibernate provides a powerful query language Hibernate Query Language
(independent from type of database) that is expressed in a familiar SQL like syntax and
includes full support for polymorphic queries. Hibernate also supports native SQL statements.
It also selects an effective way to perform a database manipulation task for an application.

4)

Database Dependent Code

Application using JDBC to handle persistent data (database tables) having database specific
code in large amount. The code written to map table data to application objects and vice versa
is actually to map table fields to object properties. As table changed or database changed then
its essential to change object structure as well as to change code written to map table-to-

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object/object-to-table. Hibernate provides this mapping itself. The actual mapping between
tables and application objects is done in XML files. If there is change in Database or in any
table then the only need to change XML file properties.
5)

Maintenance Cost
With JDBC, it is developers responsibility to handle JDBC result set and convert it to Java
objects through code to use this persistent data in application. So with JDBC, mapping
between Java objects and database tables is done manually. Hibernate reduces lines of code
by maintaining object-table mapping itself and returns result to application in form of Java
objects. It relieves programmer from manual handling of persistent data, hence reducing the
development time and maintenance cost.

6)

Optimize Performance
Caching is retention of data, usually in application to reduce disk access. Hibernate, with
Transparent Persistence, cache is set to application work space. Relational tuples are moved
to this cache as a result of query. It improves performance if client application reads same
data many times for same write. Automatic Transparent Persistence allows the developer to
concentrate more on business logic rather than this application code. With JDBC, caching is
maintained by hand- coding.

7)

Automatic Versioning and Time Stamping

By database versioning one can be assured that the changes done by one person is not being
roll backed by another one unintentionally. Hibernate enables developer to define version type
field to application, due to this defined field Hibernate updates version field of database table
every time relational tuple is updated in form of Java class object to that table. So if two users
retrieve same tuple and then modify it and one user save this modified tuple to database,
version is automatically updated for this tuple by Hibernate. When other user tries to save
updated tuple to database then it does not allow to save it because this user does not has
updated data. In JDBC there is no check that always every user has updated data. This check
has to be added by the developer.

8)

Open-Source, Zero-Cost Product License

Hibernate is an open source and free to use for both development and production
deployments.

9)

Enterprise-Class Reliability and Scalability

Hibernate scales well in any environment, no matter if use it in-house Intranet that serves
hundreds of users or for mission-critical applications that serve hundreds of thousands. JDBC
can not be scaled easily.

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baTableName:STUDENT

create table STUDENT( SNO int(10) primary key,SNAME varchar(20),AGE int(2));

List of jar's

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Example in Hibernate:
FileName:hibernate.cfg.xml
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/mysql</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">guru</property>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<mapping resource="testbean/Student.hbm.xml"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

FileName: Student.hbm.xml
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
<class
name="testbean.Student"
table="STUDENT">
<id
name="sno"
column="SNO"
type="long"/>
<property
name="sname"
column="SNAME"
type="string"/>
<property
name="age"
column="AGE"
type="long"/>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

FileName:Student.java
public class Student {
private Long sno;
private String sname;
private Long age;
public Long getSno() {
return sno;
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}
public void setSno(Long sno) {
this.sno = sno;
}
public String getSname() {
return sname;
}
public void setSname(String sname) {
this.sname = sname;
}
public Long getAge() {
return age;
}
public void setAge(Long age) {
this.age = age;
}
}
FileName: Test.java
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.Transaction;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import testbean.Student;
public class Test {
/** Configuring the hibernate.cfg.xml . SessionFactory is Second-level-Cache memory */
public static final SessionFactory sessionFactory= new
Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
public static void main(String[] args) {
/** Instance StudentClass */
Student tb = new Student();
/** Setting Values into student object */
tb.setSno(new Long("4"));
tb.setSname("RajaRam");
tb.setAge(new Long("24"));
/** Creating a Session Which is Frist-level-cache memory */
Session sess=sessionFactory.openSession();
/** Transation is applied for rollback the DataBase. if any Trigger fairs */
Transaction transcation = null;
try{
Transaction transcation = sess.beginTransaction();
/** Save or Update into table */
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sess.saveOrUpdate(tb);
}catch(Exception e){
/** DataBase rollbacking */
transcation.rollback();
e.printStackTrace();
}finally{
/** commiting the DateBase */
transcation.commit();
}
System.out.println("--------------------------------");
System.out.println("Sno
|Name |Age
");
System.out.println("----------+----------+----------");
/** Retriveing the all detailes into the list like "select * from student" in DataBase*/
List list=sess.createQuery("from testbean.Student").list();
Iterator it = list.iterator();
while(it.hasNext()){
/** Take Values into Object and displayed EveryThing */
tb=(Student)it.next();
System.out.print(tb.getSno() + "
|");
System.out.print(tb.getSname());
for(int i=tb.getSname().length();i<10;i++){
System.out.print(" ");
}
System.out.println("|"+tb.getAge());
}
/** CleanUp and Closing the Session */
sess.flush();
sess.close();
System.out.println("--------------------------------");
}
}
OutPut:
Hibernate: select testbean_.SNO, testbean_.SNAME as SNAME0_, testbean_.AGE as AGE0_
from STUDENT testbean_ where testbean_.SNO=?
---------------------------------------------Hibernate:
select
testbean0_.SNO
as
SNO,
testbean0_.SNAME
as
SNAME0_,
testbean0_.AGE as AGE0_ from STUDENT testbean0_
-------------------------------Sno
|Name
|Age
----------+----------+---------1
|ABCED3
|22
2
|Raghu
|22
3
|Rama
|21
4
|RajaRam
|24

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