trying to play the piano wearing mittens
Bibeault, this phrase of yours is funny
It turned out to be quicker and easier for me to use straight-up JDBC. I'll think I'll be giving iBATIS a shot in my next DB-centric project.
Ya... for people who are used to coding against the DB with SQL etc, iBatis is more suitable than Hibernate with iBatis giving more control...and Hibernate can be frustrating. But then Hibernate is there for those who don't want to bother themselves with DB details.
I personally like SQL/JDBC...and so, I naturally liked what I find in iBatis.