Java Database API requiring no XML configuration

Question

I am recently back in Javaland from Ruby and Activerecord and was wondering if there were any database solutions that do not require me to set up XML files to use them, and if possible supply any configuration in pure Java?

Answer 1

There are many. Though hibernate is the most famous one. It has annotation for most of the configuration and that too is not required, if you use naming strategies.

http://www.hibernate.org/

Answer 2

You can configure Hibernate without using any XML via the Configuration class (it doesn't have to read XML documents). It's easier to avoid the mapping of .hbm.xml files if you're using annotated classes and AnnotationConfiguration instead.

See this for more details: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.3/reference/en/html/session-configuration.html#configuration-programmatic