Manning - Hibernate Quickly

Like many others, I started writing my own persistence framework before I discovered Hibernate. In 2002, I was working on a large business- to-business portal that underwent frequent changes. It seemed that the persistence code changed weekly, making it impossible to both maintain the SQL and have a stable system. My first attempt at a persistence framework covered a few of the basics: associations and SQL generation. When these proved insufficient for my needs, I realized the task was large and began looking at the available persistence options for Java applications. I soon decided to go with Hibernate. Hibernate was still relatively new at the time; version 1.0 had just been released. However, it seemed the logical choice—it wasn’t overly complicated and offered the features that I needed and didn’t have time to implement. Hibernate also didn’t require that I change my existing code to accommodate it.