Java Frameworks War: Spring and Hibernate

Question

My developers are waging a civil war. In one camp, they\'ve embraced Hibernate and Spring. In the other camp, they\'ve denounced frameworks - they\'re considering Hibernate

Answer 1

I have to agree with many posts on this one. I've used both, extensively, in a variety of settings. If I could undo a design decision it would be to have used Hibernate. We actually budgeted a release in one of our products to swap Hibernate for iBatis and Spring-JDBC for a best-of-all-worlds approach. I can have a new developer get up to speed using Spring-JDBC, Spring-MVC, Spring-Ioc, and iBatis faster than if I just tasked them with Hibernate.

Hibernate is just too complicated for this KISS developer. And heaven help you with hibernate if your DBA sees the generated SQL the database sees and sends you back with optimized versions.