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

Spring and Hibernate definitely make life easier. Getting started with them might be a little time-consuming at the beginning, but you'll certainly benefit from it later. Now the XML is being replaced by annotations, you don't need to type hundreds of lines of XML either.

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