Hello,

I have been using llblgen for more than one year now and have had great success using it.

Next year I'm starting a new job in an another company where I'll be asked to develop enterprise applications using java. Leaving the .net world, llblgen is the tool I'll miss the most. Untyped queries causing runtime exceptions, invasive error handling code, raw transaction management are all things I'm no longer used to. Thanks to llblgen I have been able to focus on my customers requirements rather than on ADO.net issues.

I wonder if anyone knows about a good OR mapping framework in java that would come close to what llblgen does.

How about Hibernate?

Thanks for the idea, I have already done some googling for hibernate.

Looking at the examples I have found, it seems that as soon as there's a need to do anything more advanced than reading/writing single entities, you have to write unsafe string-based queries.

Don't they have HQL - a code based query structure...? http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/queryhql.html

Yes, but as far as I know, queries written in HQL are string-based and aren't checked at compile time. Therefore you might wonder if it's any better than SQL if you don't need portability.