Hi,

I'm new to this forum and I'm a fan of hibernate framework. Our organization have purchased IBM Websphere 7 and the development team has been give just 3 license for RAD 7. Rad 7 comes with JPA support and there fore they need to use JPA. But all the other developers will be using Eclipse for developments and I'm willing to use Hibernate with my new applications.

Most of the people say that hibernates is not a good choice when considering the performance of the application, but what I believe is it may depend on the way developers use it; and those issues may be shaken off with best practices.

Please let me know,
1. Whether 'Hibernate' is an overhead?
2. Am I not making any mistake by having faith on Hibernate?
3. Is hibernate a better tool for me to challenge those JPA guys who say Hibernate is not a good choice?

Thanks!!!

:)

hibernate3 supports JPA. JPA and hibernate can co-exist and complement each other, making developers life easy.

http://www.coderanch.com/t/218819/Objec ... ate-vs-JPA

cheers

1- it might be an overhead, but is not if you do it right. of course assembly code could be faster, but it all depends on the developers capability and how many resources you have. Hibernate makes your life much easier, so that the team will have much more time to focus on other things than mapping and SQL, for example performance tuning, so in a limited time (real world!) you could end up in a better performing application.

3- JPA is a specification based and insipired on Hibernate, so to say "using JPA" is an abstraction of "using Hibernate, or toplink, or openJPA, or.." but in most common cases it just means "use Hibernate".


I don't think they need to use it just because they got it; having paid for it doesn't mean that it's better.