Spring and Hibernate.

Question

Hi
Can someone please let me know why there is a need to integrate Hibernate with Spring. Sping provides JDBC templates to work with persistance storage so why use Hibernate.
I know Hibernate is O/R Mapping framework. I need some concrete differences with what i can do with Hibernate and not with Spring.

Answer 1

...and the same can be done using JDO (in particular
Kodo JDO), or Apache's OJB (ObJectrelational Bridge),
integrated via Spring's ORM framework support.
This is hardly a Hibernate-specific added value.Of course, but that's how the OP phrased the original question. Perhaps a better question would have read "JDBC versus other persistence strategies in Spring".
If there are indeed some present issues with the
application that could be addressed with
lazy-loading, then the OP could look into
different solutions ( of which Hibernate is only one
) to be integrated with the existing Spring
framework,.The OP appears to be asking whether using straight JDBC with Spring is good enough, and what were reasons s/he hadn't considered for going with another persistence scheme.
If there are no issues to address, then there is no
need for such a thing.You're no better at reading their mind than I am. I just tried to answer the question as written.
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