I'm just reading up hibernate right now, it seems to be pretty cool. I'm updating an application which interact with database. I can't chaneg the database design because other external tools use and update it as well.
The databae contains over 8000 tables, each table definition is the same, with the except of data itself. Each table has about 2000 - 50000 records.
Hibernate was suggested and we are doing reseach right now. I like the idea the that no more
JDBC and sql, but from my research, it seems that we have to maintain the mapping files, which is abit too much considering 8000 tables.
If I read the document wrong, please correct me. The last thing I want to do is to getting all the user interface and logic done, then stuck with Hibernate part and realize it's a maintenance nightmare.
Any help is appreciated.