Chapter 2: Customizing the jOOQ Level of Involvement
In the previous chapter, we introduced jOOQ in a Spring Boot application and used it for generating and executing a valid non-type-safe SQL statement. In this chapter, we will continue this journey and increase the jOOQ level of involvement via an astonishing feature – the so-called jOOQ Code Generator. In other words, jOOQ will be in control of the persistence layer via a straightforward flow that begins with type-safe queries, continues by generating Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) used to map the query results as objects, and ends with generating DAOs used to shortcut the most common queries in object-oriented style.
By the end of this chapter, you'll know how to write type-safe queries, and how to instruct jOOQ to generate POJOs and DAOs that have custom names in Java and Kotlin applications, using Maven and Gradle. We will cover these topics declaratively (for instance, in XML files) and programmatically.
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