Devx on EJB 3.0 and Hibernate
Devx just published an article called Politically Charged EJB Decision Hands a Victory to JBoss. It states that the EJB expert group has decided to use Hibernate as the persistence mechanism in EJB 3.0. That’s not how i understood it. EJB 3.0 will provide a POJO object relational mapping much like Hibernate, but i don’t think it will be exactly like Hibernate.
The article further states that Hibernate users are more likely to choose Mysql as their database, so the writer doesn’t understand why companies like Oracle and IBM agreed to go with Hibernate in EJB 3.0. I think this statement is also incorrect. The last time i used hibernate was in combination with Oracle. In my experience most companies have already standardized on a database, and are building new application using existing data in existing databases.