Hibernate is great. However, I don’t see it fits all the data access requirements. At its core, it is an ORM tool that helps you to map your object model to relational model. If you have full control of your relational model and perform lots of CRUD operations, it is certainly a great tool for [...]

Open source reporting My company needs a reporting engine but it doesn’t want to go for the expensive commerical ones like MicroStrategy. In fact, I don’t know why we need to pay so much because there are tools out there for FREE. As usual, I googled the Net and found out two seemingly promising open [...]