Hi,

I am currently exploring the possibility to use Hibernate in our project, and I would like to get some response from the community on whether Hibernate will be able to satisfy all the requirements.

1. Our application runs on JDK1.3 and WAS 4. Is Hibernate compatible with JDK1.3? Will there be any issues in using Hibernate in this environment?

2. As I understand, Hibernate will be very useful to us in persisting the domain objects into database records using just mappings.
But I also need to be able to retrieve various kinds of information from the database. From an SQL point of view, I would need to write complex queries to retrieve information like count of records satsifying a complex condition, and generate reports based on it. I wonder if Hibernate has the power to retrieve such information. Can somebody guide me in evaluating this product?

Thanks,
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Sam.