Hibernate documentation for dropping down to your DBMS's native SQL dialect, bypassing the HQL abstraction. Describes how this method can be used to call stored procedures from Hibernate.
SQL can be combined with an object-oriented approach. What we end up with is Hibernate Query Language, or HQL. This article discusses how HQL works, and shows how to use it in the real world.
Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service. Hibernate lets you develop persistent classes following object-oriented idiom - including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and collections. Hibe