> Can you explaim why is so overwhelmed by Hibernate ? Is there some > performance related isssue ?
My personal opinion is that there are two reasons: 1) documentation is _MUCH_ better for hibernate 2) The concept for hibernate seems to be easy: Give an object to Hibernate and Hibernate does all the persistence work. But it not an performance issue. As you have total control over what the database does, you have more optimisation potential in Torque than in Hibernate. Maybe in some special cases it is more work to optimize Torque application, but it is certainly feasible. Thomas