(Quick Reference)

hibernate

Purpose

The hibernate plugin configures the Hibernate implementation of GORM.

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 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 SpringLobHandlerDetectorFactoryBean that attempts to automatically detect the Spring LobHandler to use based on the database.
sessionFactory - An instance of the Hibernate SessionFactory class
transactionManager - An instance of Spring's HibernateTransactionManager class
persistenceInterceptor - An instance of 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 GrailsOpenSessionInViewFilter that deals with Grails' Session management.