Web Ressources
& Other Interesting Stuff in the Area
(Java) Have a look at Java Skyline on O/R mapping tools
(all o-o languages) CETUS: See this page for products, O/R mappers and also Object Databases. At the time being (11/2001) it might be somewhat outdated.
(Java) db4o is a Java OODB that can be used free of charge for non-commercial use. It's creator has also proposed SODA - an API for access layers that is waiting for implementation
(VisualBasic) a site that seems interesting if it comes to persistence for Visual Basic by Willy van den Driessche . Did not read it completely, but looks good.
Other papers - not cited in the articles
ChiMu has a paper on O/R mapping.
Object/Relational Mapping Strategies by objectmatter.com
to be continued ...
Patterns
PLoP pages: You can find many more patterns on allmost any subject in software enginnering on the PLoP pages. Some of these links are not very reliable .. my apologies.
PLoP 96 http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PLoP-96/workshops.html EuroPLoP 96 http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/europlop-96/writers-workshop.html PLoP 97 http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/hanmer/PLoP-97/Workshops.html EuroPLoP 97 http://www.riehle.org/events/europlop-1997/index.html PLoP 98 http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop98/final_submissions/ EuroPLoP 98 http://www.coldewey.com/europlop98/Program/writers.htm PLoP 99 http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop99/proceedings/ EuroPLoP 99 http://www.argo.be/europlop/ PLoP 2000 http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop2k/ EuroPLoP 2000 http://www.coldewey.com/europlop2000/index.html PLoP 2001 http://jerry.cs.uiuc.edu/~plop/plop2001/ EuroPLoP 2001 http://www.hillside.net/patterns/EuroPLoP/ more PLoPs after 2001 see http://www.hillside.net/patterns/
Patterns HomePage: This page is the official/unofficial authority on patterns maintained by the Hillside Group and UIUC.
ARCUS: Used to be a project, where many of these patterns originally evolved from.Contains also other patterns in a design cookbook for business information systems..
Other Sites and Misc. stuff
http://www.service-architecture.com/object-relational-mapping/: Object-relational mapping articles and products: Free, online articles about object-relational mapping products along with links to product vendors.
for more see the products pages
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