Does "persist" mean *commit* ??

[Sébastien de Mapias]

Hi,
Sorry to get back with my question... But nothing's
clear in these answers I got. The 1rst line of R. Green's
page states that "writing Java objects to disk in a way that
they can be read back in again later".

If HibernateTemplate's 'save' means "persist", i.e. write objects
to disk, then 'save' means 'commit' am I right ?

Thanks.
SR

 

[Jean-Baptiste Nizet]

Hi,
Sorry to get back with my question... But nothing's
clear in these answers I got. The 1rst line of R. Green's
page states that "writing Java objects to disk in a way that
they can be read back in again later".

If HibernateTemplate's 'save' means "persist", i.e. write objects
to disk, then 'save' means 'commit' am I right ?

No, you're not. It seems to me that you're trying to understand the
meaning of a specific term in the javadoc of a specific method of a
specific class: HibernateTemplate.
HibernateTemplate, as its name and doc indicates, is a utility class
provided by the Spring to help with using Hibernate, a complex Object-
Relational Mapper (ORM), in Spring-based applications. Try first to
read about Hibernate, what it is, what it does and how it works,
before trying to use it with HibernateTemplate:
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/ (or
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/fr/html/ if, as I suspect,
you prefer reading in French). Then you will understand what a Session
is, how it's related to a transaction, what persistent and transient
objects are in this context, what persist means, and when a commit is
performed.

JB.

 

[Roedy Green]

If HibernateTemplate's 'save' means "persist", i.e. write objects
to disk, then 'save' means 'commit' am I right ?

I would never trust a computer prgrammer to use an English verb in a
consistent way. You are lucky when he spells it correctly. Even Sun
has some boners. You have read the docs, experiment or study the
source code to find out what any particular method does.