Apache Empire-db lets you utilize Relational-DBMS in Java without limitations, thus allowing to unleash the full power of the database-system. Forget OR-Mapping, Entity Beans, Lazy vs Eager, Bytecode Proxies, TupleQuery and black box magic and reclaim your full SQL freedom. No Annotation madness, No Mapping-File pain, No fancy stuff to represent your data model. Just simple old, plain old Java API