--- "Jack Frosch" <jfrosch@o...> wrote:
> (I've just begun reading about Hibernate,
> http://hibernate.sourceforge.net, and have to admit, it
> looks very interesting. [...])

I've heard that Hibernate is very good, but haven't had a chance to
use it myself. (We're using TopLink.)


If your database is of small to moderate size, and you like code
simplicity and/or high performance, consider also Object Prevalence
technology. It's like an "in memory database," implemented directly
in your host application language. (But don't think of it as a
database -- it supports ACID properties, but not rollbacks.)

See:
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=PrevalenceSkepticalFAQ

Prevayler for Java,
Bamboo for .NET (C#):
http://bbooprevalence.sourceforge.net/