Hibernate vs Oracle Net Services

Question

Dear All,
I need to know, what is the best way to connect to oracle, Hibernate or normal oracle net services?
And what is the advantages and disadvantages of each one?
if you can give me a comparison from this points of view
Development, Performance, security

Answer 1

Tomy3k_Bakr wrote:
Hi Dear,
each way of connecting to a database comes to solve a specific problem or to improve a certain area of interest.
As far as i know, Hibernate moves the over head from the developer to write native SQL. But for example does it supports Load balance and failover since it is using JDBC connection as the underlying connection method. so my question to give a comparison between them which is not a comparison between cars :)
thx anywayOracle net services are just a pipe. I don't know what Hibernate brings to the table but I do see from a brief on it that it still requires the Oracle jdbc client to be in you CLASSPATH. That tells me that as far a the db is concerned, Hibernate is just another client - not the "either/or" situation your questions seems to assume. Whether it is a good client, or one that is a solution in search of a non-existent problem is another question entirely. If I had to bet, I'd bet that Hibernate was one more of many products written by people who don't understand databases, treat them like data dumps, and re-invent (poorly) solutions that already exist within the rdbms product itself.