In 2001 Hibernate was created to ease development for the hordes of unhappy developers fighting with Java’s poor EJB implementation. EJB was so confusing and over-engineered that Hibernate’s simpler approach seemed like pure heaven in contrast.

Eventually hibernate inspired Java’s JPA and became a certified implementation of JPA.

History lesson is over.

Lets look at the status today. Right now Hibernate is a very popular ORM java library, maybe the most popular of them all. And I can’t understand what is wrong with people. Continue reading “Hibernate, just stop it!” →