[sixbrx]

What you're complaining about is just the data access which happens to be used in this sample (particularly some convenience methods which aren't even necessary), which you can freely change out with any technology that you please, because it's completely orthogonal to the rest of the framework. The framework has no abstractions over or requirements for the data access framework.

Or without even changing the data access calls you could just put them behind a DAO object, which would have been injected and therefore easily replaced for testing. But that wouldn't have made the sample any clearer.