True indeed, certainly not an ORM. But I would say the effect you can achieve with it is very close to what a proper ORM can do, much more so than the lower level frameworks java people are now recommending.
Many Java developers say ORMs are the problem. Not so. JPA is. It is complicated, has lots of implicit behaviour, has a really bad query language and is horrible to optimize. It is why you never hear 'ORMs are horrible'…
True indeed, certainly not an ORM. But I would say the effect you can achieve with it is very close to what a proper ORM can do, much more so than the lower level frameworks java people are now recommending.
Many Java developers say ORMs are the problem. Not so. JPA is. It is complicated, has lots of implicit behaviour, has a really bad query language and is horrible to optimize. It is why you never hear 'ORMs are horrible'…