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.

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Description

Interface Summary

ComponentTuplizer	Defines further responsibilities reagarding tuplization based on a mapped components.
EntityTuplizer	Defines further responsibilities reagarding tuplization based on a mapped entity.
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

AbstractComponentTuplizer
AbstractEntityTuplizer	Support base class for EntityTuplizer implementations.
Dom4jComponentTuplizer
Dom4jEntityTuplizer	Implementation of Dom4jEntityTuplizer.
Dom4jInstantiator	Performs "instantiation" based on DOM4J elements.
DynamicMapComponentTuplizer
DynamicMapEntityTuplizer	Implementation of DynamicMapEntityTuplizer.
DynamicMapInstantiator
ElementWrapper	Wraps dom4j elements, allowing them to exist in a non-hierarchical structure.
EntityMetamodel	Centralizes metamodel information about an entity.
IdentifierProperty	Represents a defined entity identifier property within the Hibernate runtime-metamodel.
PojoComponentTuplizer
PojoEntityTuplizer	POJO-based implementation of an EntityTuplizer.
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.
TuplizerLookup	Stores references to the tuplizers available for a "tuplizable thing" (i.e., an entity or component).
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.)