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Tangram - Orthogonal Object Persistence in Relational Databases
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Tangram is an object-relational mapper. It makes objects persist in
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relational databases, and provides powerful facilities for retrieving
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and filtering them. Tangram fully supports object-oriented
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programming, including polymorphism, multiple inheritance and
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collections. It does so in an orthogonal fashion, that is, it doesn't
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require your classes to implement support functions nor inherit from a
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Tangram is known to run in the following environments, however,
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Tangram uses standard SQL and should be usable with any SQL-83
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Note that some functions (e.g. transactions and subselects) may not be
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available in some environments. This is reported during the test suite.
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=head1 LICENSE & WARRANTY
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You may use Tangram, free of charge, under the terms of the GPL.
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You can obtain a commercial license from Sound Object Logic, see
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http://www.soundobjectlogic.com/tangram/licenses.html.
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TANGRAM COMES WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
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Please send bug reports directly to me (jll@soundobjectlogic.com)
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or to the Tangram mailing list (tangram-users@lists.sourceforge.net).
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Whenever possible, include a short, complete script demonstrating the
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Questions of general interest should should be posted either to the
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mailing list or to comp.lang.perl.modules, which I monitor daily. Make
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sure to include 'Tangram' in the subject line.
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Commercial support for Tangram is available, see
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http://www.soundobjectlogic.com/tangram/support.html.
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Except where noted, all the code and documentation was written by
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Jean-Louis Leroy (jll@soundobjectlogic.com) and Sound Object Logic.