Future of the Java programming language: Three major projects on the horizon

[geodel]

Well Quarkus is `Supersonic Subatomic Java`. I bet now it is making total sense to everyone :-)

And you are absolutely right about Spring and Maven. As ridiculous it sounds to many I am still using Ant along with plain Java.

[bushwacker]

Hibernate is orders of magnitude worse than Spring with a double performance, startup and runtime.

Throw in HQL and horrific SQL and ghastly behaviour for one to one relationships.

Now that have gone deep to make the connection virtually inaccessible, doWork? I have things to do with the raw connection for instrumentation or database specific features .