Chapter 2. Understanding the Fundamentals

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Building a SessionFactory
• Creating a generic SessionFactory provider class
• Opening a new session
• Opening a stateless session
• Saving an object to the database
• Fetching an object from the database
• Removing an object from the database
• Updating an object
• Creating a criteria
• Restricting the results using a criteria
• Pagination using a criteria
• Sorting the results
• Transforming a result
• Using basic projection