de tomKronieken

I'm sure quite a few of you have already seen this: Hibernate Joins JBoss Group. I'm not sure yet what to make of it. It's a great opportunity for Gavin, as he will be able to spend more time on developing Hibernate. On the other hand, tight Hibernate-JBoss coupling (forcing you to use JBoss if you want Hibernate) is not an impossible scenario either. But Bill Burke seems to be very defending about this in the comments: "There will be no lock-in, because it gives no competitional advantage, on the contrary". A point that makes sense.

Anyway, future will tell. All your designs are coupled loosely enough so you're not dependent on your persistency layer, right?