It's a pretty open ended question. I'll be starting out a new project and am looking at different ORMs to integrate with database access.
Do you have any favorites? Are there any you would advise staying clear of?
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Hibernate, because it's basically the defacto standard in Java and was one of the driving forces in the creation of the JPA. It's got excellent support in Spring, and almost every Java framework supports it. Finally, GORM is a really cool wrapper around it doing dynamic finders and so on using Groovy.
It's even been ported to .NET (NHibernate) so you can use it there too.
SimpleORM, because it is straight-forward and no-magic. It defines all meta data structures in Java code and is very flexible.
SimpleORM provides similar functionality to Hibernate by mapping data in a relational database to Java objects in memory. Queries can be specified in terms of Java objects, object identity is aligned with database keys, relationships between objects are maintained and modified objects are automatically flushed to the database with optimistic locks.
But unlike Hibernate, SimpleORM uses a very simple object structure and architecture that avoids the need for complex parsing, byte code processing etc. SimpleORM is small and transparent, packaged in two jars of just 79K and 52K in size, with only one small and optional dependency (Slf4j). (Hibernate is over 2400K plus about 2000K of dependent Jars.) This makes SimpleORM easy to understand and so greatly reduces technical risk.
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