title: Hibernate or JDBC
body: <p>I have a thick client, java swing application with a schema of 25 tables and ~15 JInternalFrames (data entry forms for the tables).  I need to make a design choice of straight JDBC or ORM (hibernate with spring framework in this case) for DBMS interaction.  Build out of the application will occur in the future.</p>
  
  <p>Would hibernate be overkill for a project of this size?  An explanation of either yes or no answer would be much appreciated (or even a different approach if warranted).</p>
  
  <p>TIA.</p>