Ann W. Harrison wrote:

>>And if do use Firebird in single user mode with Hibernate, does that
>>make Hibernate less useful in any way?
>
> Umnn... without knowing what Hibernate does, I really can't say.

Hibernate is quite a nice 'Persistence' layer for Java, but it does
depend on what you are using it with as to how useful it is. It does claim

> Hibernate is now the most popular object/relational mapping solution for Java.

It's not the only one, but discussions on pros and cons are probably
best started on the firebird-java list as it's the performance of
Jaybird that will determine how it actually works and where the
restrictions start to be imposed ;)

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