Hi Everyone,

I am new to "Hibernate with JPA". Just want to know what is advantages of "Hibernate with JPA" over "Hibernate" (or) "Hibernate" over "JPA"

Thanks in advance,
~VJ

You benefit from the standard JavaEE APIs and you can alwways fallback to the native Hibernate ones.

* Use Java Persistence API, that's the standard.

* Use the implementation that's available in GlassFish because that's a compatible implementation of the JPA spec.

Warm Regards
-Waltair-

I think you are wrong here if you want to promote the Glassfish JPA implementation.

Of course, I assume you wanted to say "Use the implementation that's available with Hibernate because that's a compatible implementation of the JPA spec."

"theorctically" you can switch to hibernate from glassfish implementation ( or anyother ) later if you use JPA api....

So is Hibernate, blessed by the Sun TCK :-)

Use Hibernate, it is compatible with JPA as well and it has tons of additional features that are not in TopLink essentials.