Hibernate Feature List

...more Hibernate features

Extension Points

Numerous Extension APIs

to allow easy customization of:

SQL dialects
JDBC connection management
Transaction demarcation
Primary key generation
Persistence types
Second-level cache providers
Domain object meta-models
Criteria query criterion objects

`Interceptor` interface

allows the application to track audit / history information in a single place

Metadata API

for applications that require access to Hibernate's persistence metadata at runtime

Custom persisters

Object/relational mapping strategies for entities and collections may be customized by inheriting and extending the built in strategies (even allows integration of data that is persisted via LDAP, flat file, etc)

Event architecture

The runtime behavior of Hibernate is implemented as a set of event listeners that may be overridden and customized

[Hibernate EntityManager] EJB 3.0 callbacks

Support for the callback model defined by EJB 3.0