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<p>I was googling for something on the internet and cam across <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/ibatis-user-java@incubator.apache.org/msg01241.html">this post</a> 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 <a href="http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/querysql.html#querysql-load">the ability to map SQL queries to objects</a>. 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.</p>

<p>I was googling for something on the internet and cam across <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/ibatis-user-java@incubator.apache.org/msg01241.html">this post</a> 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 <a href="http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/querysql.html#querysql-load">the ability to map SQL queries to objects</a>. 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.</p>