On Hibernate and Scaling

I’m working in the same project (25 programmers) for about 2 years now. It’s a HUGE web project. Everything has been done with Hibernate 3.0 / Spring 1.*. After this experience I’ve got something to say: Hibernate sucks. It is not flexible and good enough for bigger project. The list of bugs is only growing.

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On SOA and WOA

I predict that SOA will morph into WOA in a few years. Some remnants of the old SOA will remain and a few unlucky chumps will be tasked to maintain it somehow. A situation not unlike that of the lost souls that keep COBOL code running to this day.

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