Once again, in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conference and Workshops, an ORM-oriented workshop will be held in November. This year's workshop will be in Vilamoura, Portugal.

The call for papers can be found here.

Papers are due June 29^th, 2009 (abstracts are due June 15^{th
ORM LinkedIn Group}

I started an ORM group in LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1743337&trk=hb_side_g.

All are welcome to join.

In addition, I'm looking for suggestions as to what to do with the group. LinkedIn groups have overlapping functionality (e.g. discussions, job postings, etc.) as most other sites, but limited participation. What sort of content/functionality should be restricted to Group memb

NORMA for Visual Studio 2009-01 CTP released

Neumont ORM Architect (NORMA) for Visual Studio is a free, open source ORM tool now released as a "community technology preview". This release has a diagram editor that supports the new ORM2 notation to include mapping of the ORM schema to 4 RDBMSs (MS SQL Server 2005, DB2, Oracle, and PostgresSQL).

Neumont ORM Architect (NORMA) for Visual Studio is a free, open source ORM tool now released as a "community technology preview". This release has a diagram editor that supports the new ORM2 notation to include mapping of the ORM schema to 4 RDBMSs (MS SQL Server 2005, DB2, Oracle, and PostgresSQL).

The International Workshop on Object-Role Modeling (ORM 2007) will be held in Vilamoura, Algave, Portugal November 28-30, 2006. The call for papers can be found at the OTM'07 site (http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=orm2007cfp).

Neumont ORM Architect (NORMA) for Visual Studio is a free, open source ORM tool now released as a "community technology preview". This release has a diagram editor that supports the new ORM2 notation to include mapping of the ORM schema to 4 RDBMSs (MS SQL Server 2005, DB2, Oracle, and PostgresSQL). Read the rest of the post for what's new with this release.