Jesse Clark wrote the following on 3/9/2005 4:46 PM:
However, I would disagree with your earlier comment that Hibernate is very easy to learn. It is a powerful tool and makes life easier once you learn it, but I think realistically you are looking at a 3 to 6 week learning curve to really figure out how everything fits together and develop a working architecture.
I'd even disagree that it makes things easier once you learn it. I'd say "only sometimes." It often creates a lot of headaches and you'll definitely run into difficulties if you don't own the tables and you can't create the table structure the way you want it.
On the other hand, plugging iBATIS again, iBATIS doesn't care what the table structure is like. One of the great things about iBATIS is that as a developer I can get a nice optimized piece of pure SQL from a DBA using existing tables and can use that exact query/update in iBATIS (no need to even learn another query language either).
I think it's great having competing frameworks. Only makes all of them better. Personally I find iBATIS simple and powerful. I also have to say that I think all the apparent buzz around Hibernate is based purely on politics (Same thing with Spring.) Not saying both aren't solid products, but they are often pushed in the same breath at conferences etc without even considering alternatives that might be better and/or easier to use.
-- Rick
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