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1. what is a good pattern for converting between hibernate entities and data transfer objects?    stackoverflow.com

I have had similar questions and concerns as to how to convert between Hibernate entities and data transfer objects to be returned by a web service as are discussed in this ...

2. Convert Hibernate entity to json using JSONArray.fromObject    stackoverflow.com

I am having a problem converting data to json.

Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();       
Affiliate affiliate = (affiliate) session.get( Affiliate , pk );
session.close();
JSONArray.fromObject(affiliate);

3. Convert a entity from one session to another session    forum.hibernate.org

... Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(Probprod.class).add( Restrictions.eq("bundnr1", bundnr1)).addOrder( Property.forName("enddat").desc()); .... Transaction tx = sessionBuffer.beginTransaction(); sessionBuffer.persist(criteria.list().get(0)); ... tx.commit(); ....