Can you please any one tell me difference between Hibernate and Spring Framework. As i am new these two framework. So i cannot understand which one is better. Or these two technologies are totally different.

We are supposed to start new project so we are evaluating the technologies. You help will help us to evaluate the technologies in correct way.


Please do reply.

Thanks.
nitin mandolkar.

They are totally different. They could compliment eachother.

Hibernate is a layer which makes it easy (or easier) to save and retrieve Java objects to an underlying storage system, typically a relational database. Spring does not do object-relational mapping.

You might want to bring in a consultant for some of your design phase. The right consultant will know that your project "needs" some tool, rather than going out looking for things that might help.

What About Spring.

Depending on whom you talk to, different people will give
you different answers on this question. Here's my
version ;-)

Spring is a container, a framework that can help you build
any kind of java application. On the very basic level, it is
an IOC (Inversion of Control) utility that can plug arbitrary
beans together. That may not sound like much, but trust me -
it is one of the powerful ways to integrate all kinds of services
(like web-server, hibernate, jdbc, rmi) I have seen so far.
Further, Spring comes with a huge library of prefabricated
utility classes for the most common use cases (such as
connecting to JDBC, setting up Hibernate etc) in an J2EE
application environment.

On top of that, spring offers many other components. One
of my personal favorites is an extremely powerful AOP (aspect
oriented programming) framework. It also has its own web layer and
much more, but it does not force you to use any of it. You can
just stick to the parts that you like and replace anything else
with other components, e.g. struts.

If you are looking for a good book about spring, take a look
at Spring In Action. It is not 100% up to date (what book can
every be in our rapid open-source world), but it is a very
good overview of what the framework can do.

Best regards,

Jens

Hi Thnks for your reply.

One more thing. Can i use Spring and Hibernate in Same application if yes, How.

Nitin Mandolkar.

Try looking at the Spring in Action book which metnions using Hibernate and Spring together (AFAIK) or checking the spring website and documentation. Using spring & hibernate together is a spring issue not a hibernate issue.

Correct. Spring comes with built-in beans that support tie-in to Hibernate. Depending on what level of automation you want, there is a very nice template-class (HibernateDaoSupport) that makes using Hibernate within spring very easy. I suggest reading the Spring in Action book - it's all explained in there.

ok.

Thanks for your help.