I am going back to real basics, but can somebody tell me what exactly "ORM" is ? May be an example will be really good

Secondly what component of Hibernate implements that...

I know the features and technique of using Hibernate.....but still not clear abt ORM


Sudhir

ok, I'm having a try ....

ORM is in my opinion a way to deal with the object relational impendance mismatch. This means, it is the technology which builds a bridge between the object oriented "world" and the relational database "world". By using ORM you create documents that describe how objects are represented in the database. An ORM Tool interpretes these documents and gives you the ability do to CRUD operations with your objects. Of course there are hundreds of additional features in today's toolsets like hibernate.

Is it like mapping relations between tables from DB to Objects and we shall use these objects in our business logic !!

What do you think ?

Sudhir