Ben Forta has done an excellent job (as always!) of explaining the built in ORM support that will come with ColdFusion 9.

I have to admit, I've heard a lot of buzz about Hibernate being added to CF 9, but I wasn't exactly sure what it was. I knew that it gave you a way to connect to a database without having to use cfquery, but that's about the extent of it. I had no idea how to use it or how it would work.

In Ben's blog post, he really clears this up for me and gives examples of how this new feature can be used. I have to say, it looks pretty sweet!