When it comes to providing reliable, flexible, and efficient object persistence for software systems, today's designers and architects are faced with many choices. From the technological perspective, ...

UML simply provides a notational and semantic framework to capture,explore, and document aspects of OO software development. Tomaximize the benefit of using UML, you should apply the languagewithin ...

One of the benefits claimed for the Naked Objects approach (see article 1) is that it helps in the capture and modeling of business requirements. There is a widespread misconception that modeling ...

Stereotypes are sets of additional metadata you can supply to elements in your UML model. The stereotypes available define your model, so you must explicitly add them. You add a stereotype by adding a ...

An ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool is one that is used to abstract the data access logic of your application. You can use ORM to bridge the apparent mismatch between the data and the object ...

Our applications are complicated enough without adding any more. Here's a way to think about your objects that allows you to dramatically simplify your object model, provided you're willing to turn ...

In the perfect world, your object model would map seamlessly to your database schema. Most organizations however, have database naming standards, requirements for how relationships are modeled and ...