Hi Bertrand, Am 25.07.2011 um 10:44 schrieb Bertrand Delacretaz:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Sebastian Schaffert > <[email protected]> wrote: >> ....I can absolutely understand why people are not in love with Hibernate. >> Not >> only is the license not fitting, it is also a much too complex piece of >> software, >> and the community and developers are very unfriendly and unresponsive >> when you have questions.... > > And ORM is an anti pattern anyway ;-) > http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/06/15/orm_is_an_antipattern I mostly agree, but the author misses one point: I think the main reason people are using ORM frameworks is the abstraction from the actual database vendors. And this is of course only necessary because database vendors failed to agree on a single SQL standard (well, they did, but they don't follow it). If there was an easy way to get away with this problem, I would be the first to again implement my own model abstractions (as I did before ;-)). Greetings, Sebastian -- | Dr. Sebastian Schaffert [email protected] | Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft http://www.salzburgresearch.at | Head of Knowledge and Media Technologies Group +43 662 2288 423 | Jakob-Haringer Strasse 5/II | A-5020 Salzburg
