Hibernate: Advanced Development Techniques (Udemy.com)
Learn Advanced Hibernate techniques for Mapping Sets, Lists, Embeddable, Enums and Inheritance
Created by: Chad Darby
Last updated January 2026
What you will learn
- Apply advanced development techniques with Hibernate
- You will TYPE IN EVERY LINE of code with me in the videos. I EXPLAIN every line of code to help you learn!
- LEARN advanced Hibernate features: Mapping Sets, Lists, Embeddable, Enums and Inheritance
- I am a RESPONSIVE INSTRUCTOR ... post your questions and I will RESPOND in 24 hours.
- You can DOWNLOAD all source code and PDFs. Perfect for offline LEARNING and REVIEW.
How it compares
Against the other 231 rated Udemy courses in Java on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 71% of them
- Reviews3,653#64 of 232 by number of reviews
- Length3.5 hoursshorter than 81% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2026more recently than 73% of them
Course Description
This course covers advanced Hibernate development techniques. You will learn how to easily use Hibernate to map Sets, Lists, Embeddable, Enums and Inheritance.
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You will type in every line of code with me in the videos ... all from scratch.
I explain every line of code that we create. So this isn't a copy/paste exercise, you will have a full understanding of the code.
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Live Coding - I code all of the real-time projects from scratch
All source code is available for download
Responsive Instructor - All questions answered within 24 hours
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PDFs of all lectures are available for download
Professional video and audio recordings (check the free previews)
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Why You Should Take This Course?
Hibernate is an amazing framework for object-to-relational mapping. It is fairly easy to get started with Hibernate. However, when you need to apply advanced development techniques, it is hard to find helpful, up-to-date information. There is a ton of information available for free on the Internet, but most of it is outdated or poorly written.
This course provides the up-to-date information on advanced Hibernate techniques. In the course, we demystify the concepts and show you practical examples that work using the latest version of Hibernate. Also, you will receive technical support if you have questions about the course material.
You Will Learn How To
Create mappings for Java Sets, Lists (both unsorted and sorted)
Integrate embeddable components in Hibernate entities
Add support for enums with Hibernate
Apply various Hibernate inheritance strategies
Compare the Hibernate inheritance strategies in terms of performance and table design
Quality Material
You will receive a quality course, with solid technical material and excellent audio and video production. This is my seventh course at Udemy.
My first six courses on Udemy were:
Eclipse IDE for Beginners
Java Database Connection (JDBC)
JavaServer Faces (JSF) for Beginners
JSP and Servlets for Beginners
Spring and Hibernate for Beginners
Deploy Java Spring Apps to the Amazon Cloud (AWS)
These courses have received rave 5 star reviews and over 200,000 students have taken the courses. Also, these courses are the most popular courses in their respective categories.
I also have an active YouTube channel where I post regular videos. In the past year, I’ve created over 300 video tutorials (public and private). My YouTube channel has over 4 million views and 32k subscribers. So I understand what works and what doesn’t work for creating video tutorials.
No Risk – Udemy Refund
Finally, there is no risk. You can preview 25% of the course for free. Once you purchase the course, if for some reason you are not happy with the course, Udemy offers a 30-day refund (based on Udemy's Refund Policy).
So you have nothing to lose, sign up for this course and learn how to apply advanced Hibernate development techniques!
Target Audience
Java Developers with basic Hibernate experience
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
3,653 Reviews
Chad Darby
Chád (shod) Darby is an author, instructor and speaker in the Java development world.
Chád is a contributing author to several Java books, including Professional Java E-Commerce (Wrox Press), Beginning Java Networking (Wrox Press), and XML and Web Services Unleashed (Sams Publishing).
Chád has Java certifications from Oracle and IBM.
He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Reviews
By Abdullah Omar Nasif on 7/14/2026
That's really an amazing course I was looking for, to develop my project. Youtube and other turtorials wasn't worth it to me. I hope this course will be updated day by day. If you are a beginner just completed CRUD using Spring Boot & REST, you must learn those things. When you'll jump on software industry, you are going to need those stuffs. It will be wise to get those things completed before the jump and get yourself ready. About the instructor: The instructor Chád Darby will always feed you each and everything. He is the best instructor of Udemy and in the software industry. He is the first instructor who made Spring Boot easier for everyone since the .xml files era(2016) while we were struggling to learn Spring and we confidently learned spring mvc and spring boot. best wishes to him!.
By Mahmoud Hamdy on 10/28/2025
The instructor did an excellent job explaining the concepts in a structured and easy-to-follow way. The examples on mapping Sets, Embeddables, and different Inheritance strategies were clear and practical. The teaching style is solid — concise, logical, and beginner-friendly even for advanced topics. However, I felt that some important advanced Hibernate areas were missing, such as caching, fetch types, entity graphs, criteria API, and performance tuning. Covering these would have made the course even more complete. Overall, this is a great course for mastering Hibernate mappings, but it’s not a full deep dive into production-level Hibernate.
By Jimmy Elkada on 9/14/2025
Great course from Chad as usual, clear and informative teaching, thanks a lot. I gave 4 starts instead of 5 for 2 main reasons: (1) Some of the info in this course is outdated, such as using hibernate.cfg.xml and using latest version (2) Need to have more sections about using advanced Hibernate with Spring Boot, Validation, DB migration tools etc. (course is too short IMHO).
By Claudio Nugnes on 8/28/2024
Very interesting course! It's an excellent in-depth look at using the Hibernate framework. Chad is an excellent teacher, he explains the concepts step by step, making them very clear. "Unfortunately, the automatic translation of the italian subtitles didn't work properly, but I was still able to understand thanks to my previous knowledge of English."
By Pavlin Pavlov on 8/18/2023
Would recommend this course to everyone with some basic knowledge of Hibernate and JPA. However, it seemed to have been elongated a bit more than necessary, for a course that is labeled as "advanced". That said, the course did provide immense value and offered numerous practical insights, making it easier to apply the knowledge in real-world applications.
By Artem Shyshkin on 7/16/2021
Great course! Before course I did not use mapping collection, I just was using OneToMany relations. But now I know when and how to use mapping for lists, sets and even sorted maps)) Thanks a lot for recap inheritance strategies! As usual - many pictures to explain theoretical matherial! Awesome!
By I Sivirinov on 11/14/2020
This course isn't bad. It uncovers how SQL followed by java classes. It's plenty of examples with embedded collections and different type of inheritances. If you aren't deep in java and thirsty to knowing how to implement working with DB (over Hibernate), this course will suit you.
By Paul Carron on 10/27/2020
Another great course.
By Gustavo on 10/23/2020
Chad is a real good teacher. He knows how to explain hard things in a easy way. He goes step by step and gives you all the material to repeat the result. I dont only learn with his courses but also enjoy the process. woooho!
By Dmitry on 10/22/2020
The course covers most of the mapping features of hibernate, although, it is far from "Advanced Hibernate". Please pay attention that this course is only about mapping, so if you're looking for relations mapping, entity manager, transaction manager, session features and other "under the bonnet" things, you should pick another course.
By Diana Aranha on 10/9/2020
Detailed Explanations.
By Shrikar on 10/8/2020
Good
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