MentaBean, the ORM/SQL Builder of Mentawai
I ran across an incredible discovery just now. I'm always closely observing jOOQ-related topics on Stack Overflow, so I immediately saw these somewhat advertising answers to a dedicated jOOQ user's...
View ArticleORM vs. SQL, compared to C vs. ASM
History is repeating itself. This is nothing new, but it takes wisdom (and Elephant memory) to remember when and how things had already happened in a similar way. When you feel that the whole SQL...
View ArticleLINQ and Java
LINQ has been quite a successful, but also controversial addition to the .NET ecosystem. Many people are looking for a comparable solution in the Java world. To better understand what a comparable...
View ArticleHigh Complexity and Low Throughput. Reasons for Using an ORM.
I've recently stumbled upon an interesting blog post about when to use an ORM. I found it to be well-written and quite objective, specifically with respect to its model complexity and throughput...
View ArticleUse ModelMapper and jOOQ to Regain Control of your Domain Model
One of the things that Hibernate is quite good at is CRUD, i.e. persisting object graphs to the database. This is particularly true if your application runs in a Java domain-model-driven context. Your...
View ArticleTypesafe’s Slick is Not About SQL
We have stumbled upon an interesting thread on the Typesafe SLICK user group where Slick was compared to jOOQ. In that thread, Christopher Vogt has made a couple of interesting statements. But let us...
View ArticleQueryDSL vs. jOOQ. Feature Completeness vs. Now More Than Ever
This week, Timo Westkämper from QueryDSL has announced feature completeness on the QueryDSL user group, along with his call for contributions and increased focus on bugfixes and documentation. Timo and...
View ArticlejOOQ vs. Slick – Pros and Cons of Each Approach
Every framework introduces a new compromise. A compromise that is introduced because the framework makes some assumptions about how you'd like to interact with your software infrastructure. An example...
View ArticlejOOQ vs. Hibernate: When to Choose Which
Hibernate has become a de-facto standard in the Java ecosystem, and after the fact, also an actual JavaEE standard implementation if standards matter to you, and if you put the JCP on the same level...
View ArticlejOOQ Tuesdays: Vlad Mihalcea Gives Deep Insight into SQL and Hibernate
Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month where we interview someone we find exciting in our industry from a jOOQ perspective....
View ArticleType Safe Queries for JPA’s Native Query API
When you're using JPA - sometimes - JPQL won't do the trick and you'll have to resort to native SQL. From the very beginning, ORMs like Hibernate kept an open "backdoor" for these cases and offered a...
View ArticleThere is no Such Thing as Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch
Much of the ORM criticism of the last decade missed the point, being inaccurate. By the end of this article, we will conclude with the following: There is no significant difference between the...
View ArticleType Safe Implicit JOIN Through Path Navigation in jOOQ 3.11
One of the biggest contributors to SQL syntax verbosity is the need to explicitly JOIN every table that somehow contributes to the query, even if that contribution is "trivial". When looking at the...
View ArticleHow to Use jOOQ’s UpdatableRecord for CRUD to Apply a Delta
While jOOQ is not a full fledged ORM (as in an object graph persistence framework), there is still some convenience available to avoid hand-writing boring SQL for every day CRUD. That's the...
View ArticleStop Mapping Stuff in Your Middleware. Use SQL’s XML or JSON Operators Instead
It's been a while since I've ranted on this blog, but I was recently challenged by a reddit thread to write about this topic, so here goes... So, you're writing a service that produces some JSON from...
View ArticleNesting Collections With jOOQ 3.14’s SQL/XML or SQL/JSON support
One of the main features of ORMs is M as in Mapping. Libraries like jOOQ help auto-mapping flat or nested database records onto Java classes that have the same structure as the SQL result set. The...
View ArticleWhy You Should Execute jOOQ Queries With jOOQ
Previously on this blog, I've written a post explaining why you should use jOOQ's code generator, despite the possibility of using jOOQ without it. In a similar fashion, as I've answered numerous jOOQ...
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