Hi!
I am having some troubles understanding the current "way to go" for hibernate. I've always used hibernate session (sometimes with spring templates) so far. But now hibernate-entitymanager seems to be a lot more appealing (JPA 2.0).

From my understanding the hibernate entitymanager somehow wraps arround the basic (session) core, is that correct? So it seems a little bit strange for me to use the entitymanager if it just wraps arround the core which i could use myself. I can't see a point in doing that (except that i whould have no direct dependency on hibernate then) maybe you could help me understand?

Could you please summarize for me the pros/cons of using hibernate session against using entitymanager?

sry for pushing this up again but even after reading a lot of documentation i still dont know what the recommended way of using hibernate is today.

should is use entitymanager or is there a disadvantage in doing so?

You use the javax.persistence.EntityManager interface to hide the fact that the underlying implementation is Hibernate etc. If you never use any vendor specific implementations (only JPA API) then it would be easy to exchange the persistence provider.