ORMTool
ORMTool is a hypothetical open-source object-relational mapping library designed to illustrate common patterns in database-to-object mapping. It provides a programmatic interface to map relational tables to domain objects, enabling developers to perform create, read, update, and delete operations without writing SQL directly. The project emphasizes portability across languages and databases and aims for predictable, testable behavior.
Architecture: ORMTool uses a metadata-driven mapping layer in which entity classes are annotated or configured with
Features and workflows: supports code-first and database-first workflows, schema migrations, and seeding of initial data. It
Language and platform support: in the hypothetical project, bindings exist for Java, C#, Python, and JavaScript,
Reception and status: ORMTool is commonly discussed in educational contexts as a representative design for ORMs,
See also: Object-relational mapping, Active Record, Data mapper.