JPA or Hibernate (with JavaBeans rather than EJBs)?

[grettke_spdr]

If you were going to set up a Seam app without EJBs, would you choose to use JPA or Hibernate?

If we used JPA, we imagine that would just use the Hibernate persistence provider for JPA.

[christian.bauer]

Use JPA, and use Hibernate as a persistence provider (what other recommendation did you expect on this forum?).

If you are not happy with Hibernate, you can, instead of falling back to Hibernate annotations and APIs, use a different JPA provider. Expect that you _will_ have to use vendor-specific annotations and APIs, because the JPA standard was not designed to cover all aspects that are relevant in practice (tuning, caching, stored procedure integration, and so on).

[christian.bauer]

Also, this decision has _nothing_ (zero) to do with EJBs. Java Persistence providers work with any EJB container, or without any EJB container.

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