On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Ola Bini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - should it in fact be Hibernate or JPA?
Hibernate is making a way for JPA and it's a much more innovative than JPA. I know that it's vender locking but Hibernate is a standard. > - how close should it be to the ActiveRecord API? I would like to see similarities with AR but nothing should be heavily forced. For example finders - making a good use of Hibernate Criteria would be plus. > > - should there be any feature for migrations? Yes, that's a huge advantage having it and not letting Hibernate create/update tables by his own. > > - should properties be declared in the common case? Yes, yes, yes :) W.