Hibernate vs. iBatis
4:16 PM EST Sunday, January 14 2007
I was googling for something on the internet and cam across this post I made to the iBatis mailing list almost 2 years ago. I think for the most part this still holds true, although when I made this statement I was referring to Hibernate 2. Hibernate 3 has some features that make Hibernate even more usable for odd database structures, such as the ability to map SQL queries to objects. The criteria API is much improved in Hibernate 3, and Hibernate Annotations make configuration of Hibernate much easier. I think these feature make the argument for using Hibernate even stronger, but iBatis is still a great framework to use for certain scenarios.