I've found Mybatis[1] to be a better alternative to Hibernate. At least with the version I was using you had to do complex mapping in XML instead of annotations

I've found Mybatis[1] to be a better alternative to Hibernate. At least with the version I was using you had to do complex mapping in XML instead of annotations which isn't great but I'll make the trade-off to avoid the ORM. Not sure if this is improved in 3.5. [1] https://github.com/mybatis/mybatis-3 https://github.com/mybatis/mybatis-3