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+ISIS-DM: the ISIS Data Model API
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+ISIS-DM is an API and tools for:
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+   1. schema definition through classes, similar to modern OPFs (Object Persistence Frameworks); 
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+   2. HTML form generation and validation;
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+   3. conversion of ISIS data to JSON;
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+In other words, ISIS-DM allows programmers to express constraints and functionality similar to those of the CDS/ISIS Field Definition Table and the CDS/ISIS Formatting Language, but in contemporary, object-oriented programming languages.
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+The API aims to be database-independent. Objects defined in the ISIS-DM should be easily persisted in CDS/ISIS, CouchDB, MongoDB, Amazon SimpleDB and other semistructured databases.