Hibernate or JPA or JDBC or ???

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Published on 2010-04-01T13:04:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 13:13 UTC
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I am developing a Java Desktop Application but have some confusions in choosing a technology for my persistence layer.

Till now, I have been using JDBC for DB operations. Now, Recently I learnt Hibernate and JPA but still I am a novice on these technologies.

Now my question is What to use for my Java Desktop Application from the following?

JPA
Hibernate
JDBC
DAO
any other suggestion from you...

I know that there is no best choice from them and it totally depends on the complexity and the requeirements of the project so below are the requirements of my project

It's not a complex application. It contains only 5 tables (and 5 entities)
I wan't to make my code flexible so that I can change the database later easily
The size of the application should remain as small as possible as I will have to distribute it to my clients through internet.
It must be free to use in commercial development and distribution.

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