Studying Hibernate
Before I started reading about hibernate, I had a hard time which technology to learn first. ORM or Webservices? As they are both essential technologies, I am left with such confusion. I already read some introductory articles about webservices, mainly Apache SOAP/Axis. But there's just nothing to do with it now so I read about ORM too! But which ORM tool to use? I've already heard of two co-I.T. professionals who use Ibatis, another ORM tool. I was confused until I read about ORM in wikipedia and discovered that hibernate is indeed the widely-accepted, most matured, opensource ORM tool out there. As a starting point, I googled and found this article to be helpful...
http://www.gloegl.de/5.html