Occasional Thoughts

Migrating an existing Java project for use with Hibernate is a difficult process. And yet I'm not sure if it is worth the work at all.

Some years ago I started a Java project with direct database access using JDBC and SQL. I designed my object model and a relational database schema. Both were optimized independenlty to work optimal in their environment. In order to connect the object world with the relational world, I wrote a clean storage layer, which was responsible for communicating with the database. This worked pretty good. But when Hibernate was becoming more and more popular, I started thinking about migrating to a Hibernate based object mapping.