ORM Technologies vs JDBC?

Question

My question is regarding ORM and JDBC technologies, on what criteria would you decide to go for an ORM technology as compared to JDBC and other way round ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

It also depends on the learning curve.

Ebean ORM has a pretty low learning curve (simple API, simple query language) if you are happy enough with JPA annotations for mapping (@Entity, @Table, @OneToMany etc).