JPA or JDBC

[ankur rathi]

What would you choose for what kind of project? JPA or JDBC?

Thanks.

[arvin ramon]

If a project needs faster database access and all it is doing is straight updates to database, going against jdbc and doing batch updates are faster.

On the other hand, if you are frequently accessing data and need a layer to cache data, I would personally prefer JPA or any other OR layer.

[Mladen Grabowsky]

Personally, if i wouldn't go for JPA/Hibernate, i'd prefer iBatis over plain JDBC.

[Cameron Wallace McKenzie]

The question can almost be generalized to "when should you use a framework, and when shouldn't you?"

Simple and straight forward apps probably don't need a framework. As things get more complicated, and management of the application over time and change becomes more important, a framework, like JDO or hibernate, becomes more and more helpful.

-Cameron McKenzie

[kaizen liu]

i will give diffent answer in diffent situatiion,for example,maybe some small and simple project i will choose ibatis or jdbc,big but not enough i think jpa will work well,and big project i think hibernate is a good choice