I just played around with hibernate and it worked very well, but what I absolutely don't like is how you can query objects: you have to specify a SQL-like query string! In this respect OJB is far better as it provides the possibility to assemble a query from objects. So I'm looking into OJB next, for me it seems cleaner.
But apart from that: I don't know. Carsten Leszek Gawron > > Has anyone got any experiences? I am a complete "persistence > layer newbie", > but I'd like to start a project using either Hibernate or OJB. After 15 > minutes of googling I got: > > http://www.freeroller.net/page/ceperez/20021213#why_i_don_t_like > http://www.porterhome.com/roller/page/matthew/20021212 > http://www.freeroller.net/page/ceperez/20021212#why_hibernate_is_b > etter_than > > which point out that Hibernate is better (got more options, > provides a better > control of what is going "inside"). > > The advantages of OJB mentioned in previous posts are: > 1. Licensing termns > Hibernate is LGPL which makes it impossible to include in cocoon > > 2. OJB uses standard JDO API while Hibernate got it's own API > > Both of the facts are not connected with the libraries' > functionality at all. > Maybe I do not get a big picture here but I think that > functionality is what > matters the most. > > regards > LG >
