Duncan Krebs wrote:
Hey,
Here are my two cents. The biggest obstacle with Hibernate is figuring out
how to correctly map the stupid collections and relationships that are
modeled in your object model. I did not take the time to look at all your
code but maybe this will help you out:
The mapping is one obstacle, the other one is dealing correctly
with the dreaded m:n relations, there is a huge lack of good
documentation in this area, I hope the next release
of Hibernate in action will resolve that...
Hibernate is not a toy but it is harder to grasp in some areas than a
straight database approach via jdbc.
I am just wondering all the time when I am banging my head again for
hours against some weirdness which was caused mostly by a mistake of
mine, due to lack of understanding / documentation in a certain area, if
there cannot be a sane middleground somewhere.
now it is getting really off topic ;-)
