title: what's the fastest way to get a large volume of data from an Oracle database into Java objects
body: <p>What's the fastest way to get a large volume of data from an Oracle database into Java objects.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any Oracle tricks as to the way the data should be organised?</p>
  
  <p>I was thinking of using plain JDBC rather than any Hibernate style libraries?</p>
  
  <p>Would it be better to get Oracle to produce a file and then read from the file - although this has to be done programatically.</p>
  
  <p>All thoughts appreciated.</p>