org.hibernate.jpa

Interface HibernateEntityManagerFactory

All Superinterfaces:

javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

HibernateEntityManagerFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

EntityManagerFactoryImpl

public interface HibernateEntityManagerFactory
extends javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory, Serializable

Contract giving access to the underlying SessionFactory from an EntityManagerFactory

Author:

Gavin King

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
EntityTypeImpl	getEntityTypeByName(String entityName) Retrieve the EntityTypeImpl by name.
SessionFactory	getSessionFactory() Obtain the underlying Hibernate SessionFactory.

Methods inherited from interface javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory

addNamedEntityGraph, addNamedQuery, close, createEntityManager, createEntityManager, createEntityManager, createEntityManager, getCache, getCriteriaBuilder, getMetamodel, getPersistenceUnitUtil, getProperties, isOpen, unwrap

Method Detail

getSessionFactory

SessionFactory getSessionFactory()

Obtain the underlying Hibernate SessionFactory.

Returns:

The underlying Hibernate SessionFactory

getEntityTypeByName

EntityTypeImpl getEntityTypeByName(String entityName)

Retrieve the EntityTypeImpl by name. Use of the Hibernate O/RM notion the "entity name" allows support for non-strictly-JPA models to be used in JPA APIs

Parameters:

entityName - The entity name

Returns:

The EntityTypeImpl