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satya

The JavaRanch had a very interesting discussion on just this topic:

http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=78&t=003738

I agree that we don't always need a framework like Hibernate. And that logic applies to all things. Like, why do you need farmers when you can grow your own food? Why do you need to buy a car from a dealer when you could build one yourself?

Some people think it would be silly to not build a car from scratch, or to buy milk when they could just milk a cow on their own. Those people tend to prefer to just use JDBC and avoid frameworks.

Satya,
My opinion is that anybody who wrote JDBC code anywhere from 6months or more time would not ask this question .

If you are working on typical J2EE web applications the advantages are quite evident to you.

For more discussion on the need of JDBC frameworks read expert-on-one J2EE design and Development by Rod Johnson (Wrox pub). It has excellent discussion on JDBC specs.

Please keep in mind also that Hibernate wraps around JDBC, so it's not one over the other (not an apples to apples comparison).