Hi All,

I don't know Hibernate at all, so I am asking from your experience and knowledge.

Does Hibernate can replcae entity beans?
I mean ease of use, performance, transaction, clustering and all the stuff.

Thanks,

Avi

Yes.

http://www.hibernate.org/News/Introduction

Sure. SLSBs + Hibernate can equal Entity beans.

Ease of use: Hibernate is vastly more flexible and productive to use compared with Entity EJB.

Performance: In the end, it is all down to SQL and the DB. The SQL Hibernate generates is very clean. The various caching schemes that can now be used give a real performance boost.

Transactions, clustering: Using SLSBs and JCA with Hibernate means that you get the transactional capabilities of EJB.



Check out http://www.hibernate.org/21.html. Its true!


Sherman

Thanks christian , but I mean answers from exprience, like sgwood.
I read the documentation and a lot of threads but I need hand on exprience.

I think so, I'm using hibernate instead of Entity Bean at my office. After, playing around with it for 2 weeks I feel like hibernate reduce my developing time around 50% and also make my code look more natural and easy to understand. By the way, please try hibernate.
Cool

Hibernate replaced EJB very nicely. Try multi schema with same descriptors. hibernate can do this, not so with ejb.

It took up months to get ejb working with mvcsoft and middlegen, ect
to work. and it was cumbersome and did not work very well nor very fast.

We have just replaced all our ejbs with Hibernate. Plus replacing our JDBC code with hibernate.

I think EJBs in the future will go away. JDO or layers more like hibernate or more flexible, easier to understand, less complicated.

There are some funny things that I don't like about Hibernate, like
one class per table. this does not make sense to me.

but we are much better off with hibernate. We have running change
at meeting our deadlines.