This document provides an overview of advanced Hibernate concepts including:
- The persistence lifecycle of objects in Hibernate and the four states objects can be in: transient, persistent, detached, and removed.
- The persistence context and how it acts as a cache and guarantees object identity within a session scope.
- Transaction management in Hibernate including demarcating transaction boundaries programmatically or declaratively.
- Additional topics covered include the persistence manager, concurrency control, caching, and batch processing.