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

As others have pointed out an ORM is only a good choice if your database is not far from an object model.

If that is the case then an option would be Hibernate through JPA for two resons:

• Netbeans has a tool to generate JPA Entities from an existing database. This entities are not dependant on Netbeans so you could use a different IDE after the initial reverse engineering.

• Spring Data JPA can avoid writing trivial queries and focus on the hard ones.