erm4j

Main goals

ERM4J is an initiative that must help developers to instantly build multi-purpose entity relation (ER) models of their DB-aware applications.

Created models can be used for

• Documenting your project's data model, storing domain-oriented system and logical view of your data entities

• Better understanding your data model with a help of visual diagrams avalilable on the web

• Help writing template code with such instruments as

  • DDL code generation

  • Standard routine operations (check, find etc.) that work based on created metadata

How to build a model

Models can be created by one of the following ways

• Describing everything in a JSON file

• Creating model with a help of API

• Straight from Java code marked with JPA or special ERM4J annotations

Who can use ERM4J

Every project that uses Java-based ORM (Object-Relation-Mapping) technology can use ERM4J and quickly obtain all the great advantages of having "always-correct", "single-source-of-truth" data model in your project.

If you use any JPA implementations such as

• Hibernate

• EclipseLink

• etc.

and have your JPA - Entity code annotated with standard @Entity annotations than you are just 5 minutes away from getting your first version of model automatically.

Quick start

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