Having seen quite a lot of 'roll your own' solutions for wrapping queries: they were almost all unstable, inefficient messes that have a tendency to pick up lot

Having seen quite a lot of 'roll your own' solutions for wrapping queries: they were almost all unstable, inefficient messes that have a tendency to pick up lots of ad-hoc functionality. I'm not particularly fond of Hibernate but at least it's well tested and efficient for what it does and does things in a standard way so you can mostly look up stuff in the manual instead of guessing your way through a homebuilt framework.