To understand this correctly: Does e.g. Hibernate give you this typed "object repository"? You only have to deal with beans and all the persistence stuff is done for you "by magic".
No. You still have to open a Session to your database and use its methods to load and store objects. What Hibernate (and other ORM tools like JDO, if I'm not mistaken) gives you is that now you are working with POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) instead of with ResultSets or with EJBs. You also map relations to object references and Collections (Maps, Sets, Lists) and so you manage your objects in an "idiomatic" way that is more friendly to us Java programmers.
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-- Ugo Cei - http://www.beblogging.com/blog/
