PriDE Entity Generator

What is PriDE? PriDE is an ultra-thin and high-performance Java O/R mapper for relational databases, originally developed by MATHEMA Software GmbH.

PriDE Entity Generator

PriDE Entity Generator

     

What is PriDE?

PriDE is an ultra-thin and high-performance Java O/R mapper for relational databases, originally developed by MATHEMA Software GmbH. It doesn't follow any persistence management standards but relies on common design patterns and is production-proved in both J2SE and J2EE environments. PriDE can really claim to be the world's smallest persistence manager, coming as a single library of less than 100k, without requiring XML and appropriate parser frameworks or other helper libraries beside the JDK.

PriDE gains its simplicity from a few important design decisions assuming an application architecture based on approved and widly recommended design patterns. This allows to dispense with some popular features which make O/R mapping toolkits fat and sometimes cause a kind of uncontrollable and unexplainable self-will when being used extensively. Many of these design patterns are related to a layered software architecture which is most often used for the design of distributed 3-tier systems. However, a layered architecture is in general reasonable and strongly recommended for any complex system, not only for distributed applications.

The design was partly inspired by Scott W. Ambler's white paper "The Design of a Robust Persistence Layer For Relational Databases". The manual provides a feature list allowing to decide if the toolkit matches the individual requirements in a software development project.

How to learn PriDE?

For a quick introduction, it is recommended to have a look at the quick start tutorial. A complete overview about PriDE's working principles can be found in the introduction chapter.

For more information:

http://pride.sourceforge.net/