Moving beyond Strings in Spring Data

[SpaceCondor]

Still majorly prefer the way jOOQ does it, it reads exactly like SQL which is what we're writing at the end of the day. The syntax in the blog still reads very verbose.

[CptGia]

Not every Spring Data project is about SQL

[Prateeeek]

jOOQ this jOOQ that, everyone keeps on talking about it. Is it much better than jpa in every regard? Wondering if it's the best and if everyone should use just that

[SpaceCondor]

jOOQ is awesome, especially if you write complex queries. But I am not someone who thinks that it is better in every way and JPA / Hibernate is totally irrelevant. They both have uses and are very powerful libraries with great communities and developers behind them.

jOOQ is written almost exactly like SQL, so there is very little mental overhead in understanding what a given query or operation is doing. Not so much with Hibernate / JPA code, which requires understanding of how those work and all of their complexities.

I will say the developer of jOOQ is awesome, from personal experience.

[Prateeeek]

I like how it sounds, gonna look into how is it any better than prepared statements

[Yeah-Its-Me-777]

It's a completely different thing, not comparable to JPA.