M2ORM2: A Model for the Transparent Management of Relationally Persistent Objects

Object-oriented application development often involves storing application objects in a relational database. Sometimes it is desirable to develop the persistent classes and the relational database in an independent way, and to use an object persistent manager to connect them in a suitable way. This paper introduces {M2ORM2, a model for describing meet-in-the-middle mappings between object schemas and relational schemas, to support the transparent management of object persistence by means of relational databases