*Batis is still a thing, and is closer to what they were asking for, but you're still mapping your domain to hand-coded SQL. That's not bad, necessarily; I jus

*Batis is still a thing, and is closer to what they were asking for, but you're still mapping your domain to hand-coded SQL. That's not bad, necessarily; I just don't know if his "abstraction over SQL" means you write it and your domain code uses that abstraction, or it's provided by the framework.