Managing Object Persistence During OOM to PDM Generation

Developers tend to use object-oriented programming languages like Java, to develop business objects and components. Eventually, these objects need to be stored in a database, then a problem arises when the user tries to store objects in a relational database because object codes in object-oriented programming languages are often different than codes used in a relational database.

You have to modify object codes after generating an OOM into a PDM to be compliant with the DBMS.

You can define persistent codes to bypass this impedance-mismatch.

You can also create object to relational mappings between OOM and PDM objects to further define the links between objects from different models (see the Creating Mappings chapter in the Core Features Guide).

• Defining Object Persistence in the OOM
  Persistent codes are defined for OOM classes and attributes. They are used during OOM to PDM generation in order to fine tune data storage in a relational database. They also facilitate round-trip engineering by allowing to recover object codes from the database.
• Managing Complex Data Type Persistence
  In the following example, both classes are defined as persistent.
• Managing Multiplicity for Complex Persistent Data Types
  If you define a multiplicity on a class attribute with a complex data type, the generation will reflect this multiplicity.

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Created October 7, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com