This is nothing against JavaServer Faces (JSF), or the soon-to-be-added Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework, JSR-371. (MVC becomes part of the standard when Java EE 8 is released.) As far as ...

Most Java applications use some type of data-fetching framework for data mapping and dynamic SQL generation, such as the iBatis Data Mapper Framework.

JPA and Hibernate enum mapping The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...