Hi,

I have searched the Hibernate forum and other sources to come to conclusion, but so far I have not found one.
So I would be glad to hear some opinion on that.

What it is the benefit of using J2EE beside distributed transactions, security and remote access?
I mean in order to have these advantages I still have to learn about EJBs (session beans) and have to know how to deploy them in an application server.

If I am using a web service I can directly access the Hibernate classes.

But if it is advisable to use J2EE do I have to implement any transaction code in the session bean and the Hibernate classes?

Thank you.

Thats your decision. EJB has declarative transaction management, our webservice stuff probably doesn't. This is all not really related to Hibernate, as we recommend our own Transaction interface for data access code, itcan be switched to either environment with a configuration setting.

s/our webservice/your webservice