What are the Java equivalents to Linq and Entity Framework
entity-framework, java, linq
Solution
Consider using Querydsl : http://www.querydsl.com
It supports JPA/Hibernate, JDO, SQL and Collections.
Querydsl is fully type-safe, supports autocomplete in IDEs and provides a common querying syntax on top multiple backends.
I am the maintainer of Querydsl, and I wrote a comparison to other frameworks some time ago.
It is slightly biased, but shows the different emphasis
- statically typed or not
- which backends are supported
- is the interface for query construction cascading or not
Newer frameworks experiment also with closure syntax.
Problem
Having played with Linq (to SQL and Objects) as well as the Entity Framework from Microsoft recently, I was wondering what the non-.Net (specifically Java) equivalents are?