Using Hibernate with MySQL

[judacoor]

I'm building a web app, using ajax, java and mysql; but an engineer told me to use hibernate to manage all the interaction with the DB, because with hibernate you can even set a connections pool and set a DAO pattern with all the best-practices implemented.So please, I wanted to share experiences with you guys..............Normally I would just set the DB and use Stored Procedures to communicate with it from the app in java. But I had never heard of hibernate before, so I'm trying to get some info in order to make things right from the beginning.The app needs to be scalabe and I really want to do it using --as I said-- using the best-practices!Thank you guys for your help!!!!!!!

[justsomeguy]

I've never heard of something called hibernate in relation to using databases in applications.

[Jesdisciple]

It looks pretty cool, and it's under the LGPL... http://www.hibernate.org/

Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service. Hibernate lets you develop persistent classes following object-oriented idiom - including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and collections. Hibernate allows you to express queries in its own portable SQL extension (HQL), as well as in native SQL, or with an object-oriented Criteria and Example API.

But I'd never heard of it before now either (not that I'm very knowledgeable about databases).

[judacoor]

So nobody has heard of it before?Please?

[Synook]

You should read through that system's documentation - http://www.hibernate.org/5.html . It looks very comprehensive, and the people who wrote about it (hopefully) know everything about how it works.