Hello,

Our business is new to using JPA/Hibernate; we are currently moving away from an in-house data layer framework. I was hoping you would be able to clear something up for me. I understand that JPA is the standard which is used and the Hibernate (or TopLink, etc) framework contains the jar files with code "under the hood".

My main question is: if one is using JPA, does that complete rule out the direct use of Hibernate? Is it a bad practice to directly call Hibernate methods/other functionality? Is there anything which JPA is missing which one would normally look to Hibernate for instead?

Thanks!

Bump - I'd still like to have this answered - the previous post is clearly some sort of spam.