Starting out from a rather emotional and maybe not really objective comparison between jOOQ and Hibernate, this turned out to be quite an interesting discussion. A must-read for jOOQ and SQL aficionados:
http://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/sk25o/forget_hibernate_jooq_is_byfar_the_best_database/
I personally like this comment here:
“You’d be hard-pressed to find a database abstraction layer that can map to SQL better than #jOOQ does, it pretty-much is #SQL.”