You can use lean Java persistence frameworks with lesser dependencies if you wish. I think mybatis only has 4/5 dependencies and 2 of them are the the standard

You can use lean Java persistence frameworks with lesser dependencies if you wish. I think mybatis only has 4/5 dependencies and 2 of them are the the standard slf4/logback dependencies. There are many modern java libraries that are very lean and mean out there and package into small-sized redistributable assemblies.