I don't think iBatis is a real ORM tool: is more an helper library for JDBC.
You will always have to write your INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE statements, while
Hibernate does that job for you (once written the xml mappings).
IMHO hibernate is better if you have a very good db scheme and if you are
not goin
> Just to be up front, I will tell you now that I am NOT an O/R fan. :-)
I think that when you have 50 tables in your db and your app is just a big
gui front end Hibernate is very good. Suppose in one of this 50 tables
a field is added. With iBatis you have to re-write 4 methods (update,
insert, d
> > lazy loading
>
> ...which has been in iBATIS for a long time. You can define those in
> your sql map and it will do it just fine. :-)
>
Ops, I missed that! In fact, it has been added May 21, 2003 ( 1.2.5-Beta2)
Very good! i'm going to download the manual (again) and read it because now
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