Agree. That's the approach I took with Norm (https://github.com/dieselpoint/norm https://github.com/dieselpoint/norm). The general idea is that I just wanted to

Agree. That's the approach I took with Norm (https://github.com/dieselpoint/norm https://github.com/dieselpoint/norm). The general idea is that I just wanted to get rid of JDBC boilerplate and use plain Java objects, but not stop using SQL. Being lightweight is the key.