I can't tell if you're blaming the technology stack or just how they were using it. I've been writing large-scale webapps using Hibernate (then Hibernate 2, the

I can't tell if you're blaming the technology stack or just how they were using it. I've been writing large-scale webapps using Hibernate (then Hibernate 2, then JPA) for over 12 years and there are right ways and wrong ways to do it.