Originally posted by Gian Franco Casula:
Does Hibernate 'impose' a strict
object oriented view of the
database? I mean, can't I just
peek into a database table in
the old fashioned way but using
Hibernate?
Hi Gian,
If you just peek into a databse table, you can't apply the OO Concept from your peeking... By using Hibernate, you can get advantages of OO from it, which are mapped to the ralational database...

For instance, reusability, inheritence and so on...
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