Re: Hibernate or JPA?

From:
Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Date:
Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:27:55 +0100
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On 01.01.2008 22:33, Daniel Dyer wrote:

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:14:24 -0000, andreic <andrei.croitoriu@gmail.com>
wrote:

I am working on a project that involves the use of a database. I would
like to use ORM and my initial thought was to use Hibernate. Meanwhile
I started looking at EJB3 and notices the Java Persistence API... I
don't have much experience with Hibernate, and also didn't use the JPA
before... I would like to get some oppinions on which one is better
and why from people who have used Hibernate and/or JPA before.


Hibernate *is* an implementation of the JPA specification. However, it
also pre-dates JPA, so there are other ways in which you can use it.
OpenJPA (http://openjpa.apache.org/) is an alternative JPA
implementation. Both have their quirks and bugs. I have mostly used
Hibernate, but decided to go with OpenJPA on my most recent project.
Hibernate's dependencies are a bit of mess - there are 3 separate
downloads required to use JPA and you have to consult the matrix to
determine which versions of each can be used together. OpenJPA is more
focused since it doesn't support non-JPA modes of working (there is only
one download and fewer library dependencies).


OTOH, if you use Hibernate's JPA implementation as part of a JEE
container (e.g. JBoss) you usually do not need to worry about those
issues because JBoss team has taken care of this already.

Kind regards

    robert

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