> if speed is the only issue
>
Well JDBC has the potential to be faster sure.
This seems a very dangerous question though because we are unlikely to be talking about a performance increase of a great amount here. If your system is giving you major performance problems then I am not sure that taking out the ORM layer will help.
And there are many scenarios in which this could hurt.
> > It's quite possible you could develop a system
> faster
> > using OBJ than one using JDBC.
>
> I would say it's likely. I would also say that it's
> going to be faster to fix.
Well then, if speed is the only issue then the answer is pretty clear.
> so what is the solution
Get a good outline of your requirements.
Most of the time an ORM solution is the way to go. But sometimes it isn't. We don't have any idea what you are doing so we can't say which one is better. Likely it's ORM, again based on probability, but that's all we have to go on at this point.