On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com>wrote:
> does hibernate continue to read XML files after it's loaded? I highly doubt it. Especially as you can do it all with annotations and/or programmatically. Peter Becker: > My point really is that while Hibernate can produce nice and easy > solutions, the only way to know you have a good solution is to fully > understand what's happening. That's definitely true. There's a reason the Hibernate reference book from Manning weighs a ton and goes 13 chapters before teaching you how to do a query! > And that is not easy and sometimes not nice either (did someone mention > "object identity" yet?). That makes Hibernate a solution that is nice and > easy as long as you either don't care at all about the potential issues or > you have someone else to take care. If you are the one who has to care you > really need a very good understanding of the OO side, the RDB side and the > ORM part. n their defense, they do say that Hibernate is not a replacement for knowing how databases work. And couldn't you say the same of Grails and Rails? Grails especially, as it uses Hibernate. Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
