- Sits on top of Database
- Object Relational Model
- Based on Hibernate - not Active Record
- Uses definition files, which can be auto generated by a script as part of the PersistentObjectDatabaseSchemaTiein:
php rungenerator.php
-s mysql://root@localhost/geolocation -f mysql /tmp
- The classes itself can also be generated by this script
- Work is being done to allow definitions to be generated on the fly from annotated source code