I am writing to ask the opinion of the Hibernate Community. I am currently designing a large database system with two other coworkers. We are discussing the best way to manipulate data in the database. For now, we are mostly using stored procedures.

I have been using Hibernate for a few years and very much like the framework but am not the type to be able to argue one paradigm vs another. This is always hard to do since most software problems can be solved with many different methods and most developers have there own favorite tool.

My coworker has a strong stance against using an object oriented application layer with a relational database and has written in detail about this at his blog here: http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/archive/2006/06/17/142

I think it is a well written entry and is worth a read. Does anyone have any reaction to this?

Thank you so much for your time!