Question: Why do you need ORM tools like hibernate?

Answer: The main advantage of ORM like hibernate is that it shields developers from messy SQL. Apart from this, ORM provides following benefits:
► Improved productivity
* High-level object-oriented API
* Less Java code to write
* No SQL to write

► Improved performance
* Sophisticated caching
* Eager loading

► Improved maintainability
* A lot less code to write

► Improved portability
* ORM framework generates database-specific SQL for you