Thinking about week 44

Why I hate hibernate

It is series of articles highlighting difficult or even impossible to resolve issues with Hibernate (in Grails). And his is right.

I summarize my experience like this:

For simple things Hibernate is very good but all other mapping tools are good too. Bus as soon as you reach a certain level you have to lick Hibernate’s ass. It is not serving you anymore but you are serving it.

• I don’t like Hibernate (and Grails), PART 1
• I don’t like Hibernate/Grails, part 2, repeatable finder problem: trust in nothing!
• I don’t like Grails/Hibernate part 3. DuplicateKeyException: Catch it if you can.
• I don’t like Grails/Hibernate, part 4. Hibernate proxy objects.
• I don’t like Hibernate/Grails part 5: auto-saving and auto-flushing
• I don’t like Hibernate/Grails part 6, how to save objects using refresh()
• I don’t like Hibernate/Grails part 7: working on more complex project
• I don’t like Hibernate/Grails, part 8, but some like Hibernate and Grails. Why?
• I don’t like Hibernate/Grails part 9: Testable code
• I don’t like Hibernate/Grails part 10: Repeatable finder, lessons learned
• I don’t like Hibernate/Grails part 11. Final thoughts.