Hibernate Questions

Hi,

I have just finished reading Beginning Hibernate and I have now been put of it all together.

Not sure if I have just totally mis-understood everything I have read, but from what I can see is that the level of skill required to implement this into an application far outweighs any benefits that it beings (mainly caching benefits).

I can certainly see how this could be beneficial in larger scale systems with hundreds of thousands of DB connections daily, but I would really struggle to implement something like this in a smaller system due to the effort involved since there would be very little tangible benefits by doing so.

Would be great to hear some feedback on my comments above from people who love Hibernate and have been using it for a while. As I say I have just read this one book about the subject so I may have just got the total wrong end of the stick :-)

Thanks
Michael