Hi all,

Well in need of a little guidence here. I am in the process of moving up in the java world and looking at developing a very large scaleable application using j2EE. However whilst going through some of the tutorials I have hit a few brick walls, the biggest thing is the persistance layer. Is there a better way of intergrating with the database than using java persistance?

Or would recomend that I struggle on getting my head around the technology and use that for my database access?

I would like to know so that when I go onto designing the application in detail I will have an idea of the technology I will be using.

cheers!

i prefer hibernate over straight JPA. hibernate is more robust, and is implemented using JPA, so if there is some aspect of JPA that you like you can still use it amongst your hibernate code.

i would highly recommend the book "java persistence with hibernate", it covers both hibernate and JPA in detail and is more than worth the $30 it costs.

I've had a brief readup on Hibinate, but I have never really played with it. I'll have a look at the book that you suggest.

Thanks for your help