I do think there’s a gap between hibernate and jooq that needs filling. I love the ease of querying for relational data with hibernate, along with support for validation annotations. On the flip side I love the jooq dsl, code gen, typed queries, and the flexibility you get from it, but there’s really no easy way to plug in validation annotations and querying for nested relational data requires a lot of effort. Based on a brief look of the docs, it seems like this library intends to fill that exact niche. Interested in checking it out when I get some time