Alternatives to hibernate [closed]

Answer 1

If you want control over the used SQL and remain close to JDBC in general, you may be interested in MyBatis, which let's you write your own queries and provides a framework for "automatically" mapping ResultSets to POJOs based on XML- or annotation-based metadata.

A select would look like this in XML:

 select id, username, password
 from users
 where id = #{id}

This would be mapped to a user like this:

With the properties being Bean properties in the POJO my.User