I agree that the Hibernate's session can make debugging maddening. You should check out EBean (the default Java ORM bundled with Play 2). It is basically Hibe

I agree that the Hibernate's session can make debugging maddening. You should check out EBean (the default Java ORM bundled with Play 2). It is basically Hibernate without the stateful session stuff. I had never heard of it before Play and now I am really surprised that more people aren't using it.