(Quick Reference)

hibernate

Purpose

The hibernate plug-in sets up GORM and Grails' Hibernate integration.

An example domain class:

class Book {
	String title
	Date releaseDate
	Author author
}

Refer to the section on GORM in the Grails user guide which details how to create Grails domain classes.

Configured Spring Beans:

dialectDetector - An instance of org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.HibernateDialectDetectorFactoryBean that attempts to automatically detect the Hibernate Dialect which is used to communicate with the database.
hibernateProperties - A map of Hibernate properties passed to the SessionFactory
lobHandlerDetector - An instance of org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.SpringLobHandlerDetectorFactoryBean that attempts to automatically detect the Spring LobHandler to use based on the database.
sessionFactory - An instance of the Hibernate SessionFactory class used by the GORM infrastructure.
transactionManager - An instance of Spring's org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager class
persistenceInterceptor - An instance of org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.HibernatePersistenceContextInterceptor that abstracts away how persistence is used from the controller/view layer so that Grails can be used without GORM.
openSessionInViewInterceptor - An instance of org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.GrailsOpenSessionInViewFilter that deals with Grails' Session management.