23.1. Strategy configurations

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Many configuration settings define pluggable strategies that Hibernate uses for various purposes.
The configuration of many of these strategy type settings accept definition in various forms.
The documentation of such configuration settings refer here.
The types of forms available in such cases include:

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<dt class="hdlist1">short name (if defined)</dt>
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Certain built-in strategy implementations have a corresponding short name.

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<dt class="hdlist1">strategy instance</dt>
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An instance of the strategy implementation to use can be specified

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<dt class="hdlist1">strategy Class reference</dt>
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A `java.lang.Class` reference of the strategy implementation to use

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<dt class="hdlist1">strategy Class name</dt>
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The class name (`java.lang.String`) of the strategy implementation to use

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