Greetings, Currently developing small web service application where response from web service (using CXF + Spring) processed and saved to database. To work with database I a
HibernateTemplate encapsulates a number of things for you to make your life easier.
It's your choice to use it or not. For that matter, you can work with a database without Hibernate. Spring's JDBC stuff is very good. You might find it easier to get your problem done without having to learn Hibernate.