by Razvan Popian, Horațiu Dan

asentinel-orm is a lightweight ORM tool built on top of Spring JDBC, particularly JdbcTemplate, thus it possesses most of the features one would expect from a basic ORM – SQL generation, lazy loading etc. 

By leveraging the JdbcTemplate, it means it allows participating in Spring managed transactions and it can be easily integrated in any project that already uses JdbcTemplate as a means to interact with the database.

asentinel-orm has been successfully used in several Tangoe products since 2015 and has been continually improved as required by the business needs. In the summer of 2024, it has officially become an open-source project, which we consider will accelerate its evolution and increase the number of contributors.

In this article, a sample application is built in order t...