About Empire-DB =============== The mission of Apache Empire-db is to provide an alternative approach for relational database access compared to Object-Relational-Mapping (ORM) as offered by JDO and JPA. Apache Empire-db is intended for developers who strive to have full SQL freedom when formulating queries and DML-Statements - without ever having to use string literals - and who also want to be able to control when and how statements are executed. Unlike other approaches Empire-db does not rely on Java Annotations or Mapping-files for building queries but rather uses a Java Object model that is easy to access and extend. For Data Access and Data Interchange developers can choose between traditional Java Beans and a more sophisticated dynamic interface provided by Record and DataListEntries. Empire-db is DBMS vendor independent and provides handlers for Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer, PostgreSQL, MySQL, HsqlDB, Derby, H2 and more. Further information can be found on our project website https://empire-db.apache.org/