> Also, there is a lot of complexity lurking in using stuff like JPA (which I tend to avoid), spring data (like wise), spring-batcg and a few other things that

> Also, there is a lot of complexity lurking in using stuff like JPA (which I tend to avoid), spring data (like wise), spring-batcg and a few other things that IMHO are not so great. If you are accessing databases, JPA/Spring Data are pretty much the most common options. For typical use cases, the configuration is straightforward and features like Query Creation[0] can get rid of so much boilerplate. [0]: https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/docs/current/reference/html/#jpa.query-methods.query-creation https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/docs/current/referenc...