I liked iBatis quite a bit too. Basically mapping hand bombed SQL to functions instead of objects (using XML ugh, but that was the norm at the time). Hibernate

I liked iBatis quite a bit too. Basically mapping hand bombed SQL to functions instead of objects (using XML ugh, but that was the norm at the time). Hibernate was just horrible and I had to watch my entire team adopt it (EJB 1 era).