July 2010
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
30h 19m
English
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ORM Software
ORM is supported by a variety of modeling tools. At the time of writing, the Neumont ORM Architect (NORMA) tool provides the most complete support for the ORM 2 notation discussed in this book. NORMA is an open source plug-in to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and may be downloaded, along with supporting documentation, either from www.ormfoundation.org or from http://sourceforge.net/projects/orm.
The previous version of ORM (ORM 1) is supported as the ORM Source Model Solution in a high end version of Microsoft Visio (Halpin et al. 2003). A discontinued ORM tool known as VisioModeler is freely available as a download from Microsoft’s MSDN Web site. Although VisioModeler does not run under Windows Vista, and the product is somewhat ...