I’ll admit, I was one of them. I was a data access purist: I like my DAOs chilled, my PreparedStatements prepared, and my SQL handwritten with the care and tenderness of a lover. The world moved on to Hibernate, Java Persistence API (JPA), and everything in between; I clung to my “SQL IS THE LAW” doctrine. Then came Spring Boot Data JPA. And even then I relished in making my own life difficult. Not for nothing though, I still believe in raw SQL – a well-crafted SQL statement will outperform Object-Relational Mapping (ORM).
The fact is that ORM frameworks are a massive time saver and wonderful ...
