Jooq and QueryDSL as alternatives to JPQL, Panache,

HQL (and JPQL) both suck because they are not statically typed..."lack of type safety and absence of static query checking""concatenation of strings which is usually very unsafe "

"Criteria Query API ended up very verbose and practically unreadable. "


https://www.jooq.org/

"jOOQ generates Java code from your database and lets you build type safe SQL queries through its fluent API. "

So this is no ORM framework, it uses your DB as it is, it simply allows you to write safer SQL queries directly in a fluent Java API. No Hocus-Pocus, it's a 1-to-1 mapping between DB and Java.

Here some examples https://www.jooq.org/doc/3.11/manual-single-page/#jooq-in-7-steps



http://www.querydsl.com/

how to use it https://www.baeldung.com/querydsl-with-jpa-tutorial and https://www.baeldung.com/intro-to-querydsl



If you want to use Native SQL or JPQL in Spring: https://www.baeldung.com/spring-data-jpa-query


This is the horribly verbose JPA Criteria API https://www.baeldung.com/hibernate-criteria-queries
" the main and most hard-hitting advantage of Criteria queries over HQL is the nice, clean, Object Oriented API."