Abstraction
One of the objectives of Hibernate and other ORM tools is to abstract the persistence of an object. Hibernate works hard to provide as much flexibility as JDBC offers while at the same time removing much of the maintenance headaches that are associated with managing SQL statements embedded into an application.
Flexible Configuration with ORM
There are some additional considerations and complexity that must be tackled, but this quickly becomes a non-issue as a developer becomes adept with the framework. The complexities that were ones a problem with JDBC (connection management, connection pooling, caching, lazy-loading associations, etc.) become configuration driven and no longer an issue for a developer to contend with.
With HQL (Hibernate Query Language) the developer can achieve nearly all of the same semantics that are available in SQL. All the power of the relational database is still present and can even be reinforced in the application through column definition, foreign keys, etc. on the object meta-data (which is amazingly simple with annotations).
If you additionally leverage Spring in conjunction with Hibernate (or JPA) you will also reap the benefit of springs transaction management, connection management, etc. and still have access to the underlying JDBC connection if you find a reason to need it.
Transparent Persistence
The automatic mapping of Java objects with database tables and vice versa is called Transparent Persistence. Hibernate provides transparent persistence and developer does not need to write code explicitly to map database tables tuples to application objects during interaction with RDBMS. With JDBC this conversion is to be taken care of by the developer manually with lines of code.
One of the objectives of Hibernate and other ORM tools is to abstract the persistence of an object. Hibernate works hard to provide as much flexibility as JDBC offers while at the same time removing much of the maintenance headaches that are associated with managing SQL statements embedded into an application.
Flexible Configuration with ORM
There are some additional considerations and complexity that must be tackled, but this quickly becomes a non-issue as a developer becomes adept with the framework. The complexities that were ones a problem with JDBC (connection management, connection pooling, caching, lazy-loading associations, etc.) become configuration driven and no longer an issue for a developer to contend with.
With HQL (Hibernate Query Language) the developer can achieve nearly all of the same semantics that are available in SQL. All the power of the relational database is still present and can even be reinforced in the application through column definition, foreign keys, etc. on the object meta-data (which is amazingly simple with annotations).
If you additionally leverage Spring in conjunction with Hibernate (or JPA) you will also reap the benefit of springs transaction management, connection management, etc. and still have access to the underlying JDBC connection if you find a reason to need it.
Transparent Persistence
The automatic mapping of Java objects with database tables and vice versa is called Transparent Persistence. Hibernate provides transparent persistence and developer does not need to write code explicitly to map database tables tuples to application objects during interaction with RDBMS. With JDBC this conversion is to be taken care of by the developer manually with lines of code.
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