Re: [Bodington-developers] hibernate ~ spring ~ common core

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Selwyn Lloyd wrote:
> wrt spring, is hibernate part of spring or does it have its own 
> abstraction layer?

Hibertnate is a standalone Object Relational Mapping library. Spring 
provides some wrappers around it so you don't have to tie your higher 
levels (business logic) to things like its exceptions. Spring also 
provides wrappers for JDO, Toplink, etc.

It also provides abstraction of transactions from JTA/JDBC.

I'm not using any of this in the SpringMVC/JSP development.

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