The ORM Foundation

The IBM piece is exactly the kind of stuff I’m looking for Ummmmmmm. I have just spent nine months working on my MSc Dissertation. The project was about testing the hypothesis that ORM is at least 25% more effective than other approaches such as UML & ER. My conclusion from that project (and of many years of working with ...

You say that you are "using mainly ORM" You can help the ORM experts to help you if you mention which ORM tool you are using. What are you trying to model with UML? Are you using the "Use Case First" approach? (described at:  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/5383.html ) Regarding books, the ...

Well I can just about figure out what it is doing but to be able to write such a script it seems to me that: 1: You would need to learn the language in which it is written. 2: You would need to know the "reserved words" in ORM Lite For example  the statement: rid = reportWindow.ReportID  # current report id Seems to me ...

Hi Brian, Sorry, my finger trouble - it should work now. The tgz and dmg files are now added. Ken

Hi Brian, I have updated your profile to allow you to upload files to the Tools:ORM Lite section in the Library. You may upload the following types of files:  pdf,orm,doc,docx,vsd,ppt,pptx,zip,htm,html,txt,bat,msi Let me know if you have a need for an additional file type. Ken

will i be able to use NORMA, or must i buy VS.Net to use it?  NORMA is an add-on to Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008. So you need either Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 to run NORMA. is NORMA better than VISIO? if it does - in what aspect? VisioModeler implements ORM 1 whereas NORMA implements ORM 2. ORM 2 diagrams are ...

"i cant understand why not to use the UML [0...1], [1...*] etc. theseare much more precisr and easier to follow." Your question raises the deeper question of "What is the difference between UML and ORM?". Two simple answers to this question are that: 1: ORM is more expressive than UML 2: The object-role modeling ...

Hi Brian, I looked at your website. ORM Lite does seem to be an interesting ORM approach so I have created a section in the library for your tool. A Forum is possible but I suggest that you start any discussions in the "Other tools" section. If ORM Lite gets a reasonable number of posts, then I will create a new forum ...

Hi Brian, Thanks for your post. It's always good to hear about new efforts to popularize ORM.   However, the link http://pureviolet.net/ganttpv/orm/index/ does not work. Furtheremore, I see messages dated as early as 15 January this year that say that the pureviolet link does not work. ...