Agreed. After spending the better part of a decade watching Hibernate a) fail to scale or b) get confused beyond a third level of association, I find myself wri

Agreed. After spending the better part of a decade watching Hibernate a) fail to scale or b) get confused beyond a third level of association, I find myself writing bare SQL and/or refactoring to implement the repository model. ORMs are great for prototyping or if your data model is simple; beyond that you're better off without them.