> I consider not having a suffocating bureaucratic "framework" that can be replaced by simpler and more straightforward constructs most of the time a feature an

> I consider not having a suffocating bureaucratic "framework" that can be replaced by simpler and more straightforward constructs most of the time a feature and not a bug All those 'simpler and more straightforward' constructs cost a lot of extra time and effort, there's a lot of reinventing the wheel going on. Can you do something similar to just adding a field annotated with @PersistenceContext or @Resource and having a database connection injected ? Does it also allow for complete decoupling between the configuration of that datasource and the application itself ? Can it resize the database connection pools live, and then push that config change to an entire cluster, without writing a single line of extra code ?