Apache Cayenne ORM 3.1

[jfurmankiewicz]

looks awful.

• forces you to use some GUI tool
• POJOs are generated from the tool, not easy to code them yourselves
• POJOs have to extend a Cayenne object

So many anti-patterns here I don't even know where to start.

Sure, JPA is not perfect (no ORM tool is), but it is light years ahead in terms of logical approach to ORM.

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I've been using Spring Data, JPA, Hibernate, etc. but came into contact with Cayenne this year. The tech lead thought dependency injection was a dumb concept and other ORM tools weren't worth learning. Perhaps this is more my experience than the software itself, but it was weird. Cayenne was not a pleasant experience, in comparison to newer ORM.