2.10.1. Dynamic mapping models

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Persistent entities do not necessarily have to be represented as POJO/JavaBean classes.
Hibernate also supports dynamic models (using `Map`s of `Map`s at runtime).
With this approach, you do not write persistent classes, only mapping files.

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A given entity has just one entity mode within a given SessionFactory.
This is a change from previous versions which allowed to define multiple entity modes for an entity and to select which to load.
Entity modes can now be mixed within a domain model; a dynamic entity might reference a POJO entity, and vice versa.

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<pre class="prettyprint highlight">`Session s = openSession();
Transaction tx = s.beginTransaction();

// Create a customer entity
Map&lt;String, String&gt;david = new HashMap&lt;&gt;();
david.put( "name","David" );

// Create an organization entity
Map&lt;String, String&gt;foobar = new HashMap&lt;&gt;();
foobar.put( "name","Foobar Inc." );

// Link both
david.put( "organization",foobar );

// Save both
s.save( "Customer",david );
s.save( "Organization",foobar );

tx.commit();
s.close();`</pre>
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The main advantage of dynamic models is quick turnaround time for prototyping without the need for entity class implementation.
The main down-fall is that you lose compile-time type checking and will likely deal with many exceptions at runtime.
However, as a result of the Hibernate mapping, the database schema can easily be normalized and sound, allowing to add a proper domain model implementation on top later on.

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It is also interesting to note that dynamic models are great for certain integration use cases as well.
Envers, for example, makes extensive use of dynamic models to represent the historical data.

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