Using Hibernate for Existing Database

Question

We have an application thats already running for a long time. Now we are migrating it to Spring and possibly using Hibernate or any other ORM.

But we caught up with a qu

Answer 1

Hibernate works well if you can model your database under your objects.
Vice versa, you are likely to get the database model as your your domain model. You need to evaluate how distant those two models are, otherwise you are going to map the database => ORM objects => your domain model. I would avoid that.

If I want to skip the ORM part, I find myself quite happy with JDBI which I prefer over Spring JDBC Template