Use JPA, and use Hibernate as a persistence provider (what other recommendation did you expect on this forum?). If you are not happy with Hibernate, you can, instead of falling back to Hibernate annotations and APIs, use a different JPA provider. Expect that you _will_ have to use vendor-specific annotations and APIs, because the JPA standard was not designed to cover all aspects that are relevant in practice (tuning, caching, stored procedure integration, and so on). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4038652#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...