[Jakarta-commons Wiki] Update of "Digester/WhyUseDigester" by SimonKitching

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add info about hibernate xml mapping

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  as data rather than true objects, then digester is not for you; DOM, jDOM or other 
  more direct binding tools will be more appropriate.
  
+ === Hibernate xml mapping ===
+ The hibernate library is best known for doing OO <-> Relational database mappings.
+ However version 3.0 and later have the ability to also map objects to and from xml.
+ 
+ This would appear to be quite similar to Digester/betwixt in features; the classes being
+ mapped are real classes, and configuration information (an external xml file or
+ annotations within the source code) define how the bean properties are to be mapped.
+ 
+ I haven't actually used this hibernate feature, so can't offer any more info. If you
+ have used hibernate's xml mapping functionality then please describe your experience
+ here.
+ 
  === Pre-processing tools ===
  
  Tools like JAXB take an xml schema as input to a "compiler" and generate
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   * JBind (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jbind/)
   * JXM (http://jxm.sourceforge.net/)
   * Skaringa (http://skaringa.sourceforge.net/)
+  * hibernate (http://www.hibernate.org)
  
  == Articles ==
  

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