Matt Ingenthron's Stream of Consciousness

Thursday July 01, 2004

More on Hibernate

For those who may have read my earlier post on JBoss and Hibernate (anyone out there?), I just attended a session that included hibernate. I have a couple of thoughts based on what was presented.

- Hibernate has explicit calls for controlling the object cache; seems like this is the opposite of what you want in the container model. Shouldn't this be someone else's problem? Won't it lead to people doing things similar to calling system.gc? Maybe I need to look at it more closely.
- It uses native sequence generators if avail, otherwise it emulates. pretty cool way to help people develp code easily and remove even more plumbing. - It appears to be pretty flexible on db schemas. But it does submit you to some XML mapping that doesn't look too bad. From what I've seen, annotations in J2SE 5.0 will clean that up for EJB 3.0.

I wish I had the time to play with it, but I don't really these days. So much to do and so little time. Anyone else ever feel like that? ;-)

Updated wirelessly from my Treo... ( Jul 01 2004, 04:58:22 PM PDT ) Permalink