SESSION DESCRIPTION In this presentation we discuss how a large project implementation introduced hibernate into a WebSphere environment and solved the following problems: Integration with XDE Object/Business Modeling; Integration with XDE Data Modeling (LDM's and PDM's); The challenge of removing human middleware in ORM mapping; challenges XDoclet/Middlegen didn't solve; challenges of coordinating conflicts between database naming standards and object naming standards; challenges of tool integration; challenges of shared code ownership - application developers and business methods vs ORM team and structural methods and relationships; A specification for automating the ORM mapping.