http://www.SimpleOrm.org -- here's a snippet from the top of that page Simple Object Relational Mapping To the database do no harm. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Simple adj. 1. Easy to understand, deal with, use etc. 2. not elaborate or artificial. 3. unaffected, unassuming. 4. not complex or complicated. [Macquarie Dictionary]. Overview SimpleORM is new Java Object Relational Mapping open source project (Apache style licence). It provides a very simple and easy way to implement object/relational mapping on top of JDBC at low cost and low overhead. Not even an XML file to configure! ---- Superb tool, database agnostic and allows to debug easily.