Java Object Oriented Querying

in 2009, the java database middleware market was dominated by a variety of orms implementing jpa. this paradigm was hardly challenged by alternatives. there was a gap for an api making sql a first-class citizen in the java language ecosystem and jooq had come to fill this gap. with jooq, developers who engage heavily in writing sql finally had a tool that helped them express sql almost natively in the java language, leveraging the java 6+ compiler’s features to validate their sql statement’s syntax and type correctness. in the following four years, jooq had become increasingly popular and mature. jooq is used by many demanding customers operating on large and complex databases. the feedback that we have had from those customers was unanimously positive, although there was one thing missing. that one missing thing was professional support, warranties, and thus commercial licensing. with the new jooq 3.2, apart from introducing great new features, we are changing quite a few things on ho