> Why exactly Hibernate needs cglib and asm ?
Hibernate gains additional performance by generating code on the fly
from your hbm files, rather than sorting through the XML DOM every time
you need to store an item in the database.
> Is there a way to configure and use Hibernate without asm.jar ? What
> would then be the consequences in term of performance ?
I don't know if it could be done.

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