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Re:To ORM or Not to ORM by pjmlp on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:06AM (#19857101)
Who said anything about it being a trivial app?

It was an ETL stack for distributed networking monitoring, and data reporting.

Re:To ORM or Not to ORM by stickfigure on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:38AM (#19859201)
If you can comfortably use JDBC for data access, then your data access logic isn't very complicated. There's nothing wrong with that; use the right tool for the job.
Re:To ORM or Not to ORM by alexnewman on Thursday May 09, 2019 @10:19AM (#19868496)
I believe the exact opposite
Re:To ORM or Not to ORM by pjmlp on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:18AM (#19859615)
Who said it wasn't complicated?

Using SQL with JDBC isn't a synonym for bare bones string concatenation.

Offload complex queries to external files, or better yet, stored procedures.