title: Hibernate and JDBC performance?
body: <p>Currently i am switching my java web application from JDBC to Hibernate, in my current implementation with JDBC i load up static data on initialization of the application into static variables so i don't have to directly access the database every time i need some static data, now switching to hibernate i am thinking of getting rid of these static variables as as far as i have researched hibernate keeps loaded data in a cache.</p>
  
  <p>I am fairly new to hibernate so i am not sure if switching from my current method to hibernate will give any performance improvements. I am  going to research further into hibernates caching and run some performance tests to see which method is better but would just like some opinions on what others think regarding performance on both these methods.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>