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 have a look at the broader context, first. Unifying Stuff Ever since the proclamation of UDDI or RUP, we may think that … Continue reading Typesafe’s Slick is Not About SQL
Tag: ORM
Use ModelMapper and jOOQ to Regain Control of your Domain Model
Please note that this is an old article and we no longer recommend using any third parties to map SQL results to domain models. Instead, use jOOQ's own capabilities of nesting records, nesting collections, and applying ad-hoc conversion If you're operating on rather complex relational models, mapping data onto rather complex domain models, then you … Continue reading Use ModelMapper and jOOQ to Regain Control of your Domain Model
High 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 diagram: The ORM or not ORM topic will probably never stop showing up on blogs. Some of them are more black and white, … Continue reading High Complexity and Low Throughput. Reasons for Using an ORM.
LINQ 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 solution could be, let's have a look at the main problem that LINQ solves: Query languages are often declarative programming languages with many … Continue reading LINQ and Java
ORM 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 versus ORM debate is a bit boring and you may have seen it before, you're probably right. It's another religious … Continue reading ORM vs. SQL, compared to C vs. ASM
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 question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5625832/java-jooq-persistence-framework-performance-and-feed-back#7387325 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5620985/is-there-any-good-dynamic-sql-builder-library-in-java#7351575 MentaBean is an ORM/SQL Builder that has recently been made independent from Mentawai, a library building on top of the Servlet specification … Continue reading MentaBean, the ORM/SQL Builder of Mentawai