Database agnostic and Hibernate

You know, there once was a time I genuinely loved Java. I thought it would be a great language with even better security. Then came V0.8, and we had to rewrite everything we'd done so far during the class...
Since then, I changed. Java stepped out of the sandbox, was even tangled with by Microsoft, and I've become a bitter old man. I've seen too many Java "programmers" that just select from table a, and from table b, sort the a results, sort the b results, join a and b and discard 99% of the result set , and then complain about the performance of the database.

This entry made my life happier; maybe it is not "just me" - read the April, 22nd 2009 entries.

Grin.
By the way: java programmers: read up on ref_cursors...