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NORMA CTP version 2007-03 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).

ORM 2007: Call For Papers
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).

NORMA CTP version 10 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). Read the rest of the post for what's new with this release.

NORMA CTP version 6 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). Read the rest of the post for what's new with this release.

ORM 2006 -- Deadlines Extended
Just a quick entry to let every one know that the ORM 2006 workshop is sorely in need of paper submissions and as such deadlines have been extended. The call for papers can be found here: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/index.html?page=orm2006cfp. The deadline is now July 10th.

NORMA CTP version 5 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). Read the rest of the post for what's new with this release.

NORMA CTP version 4 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).

NORMA CTP version released
Neumont ORM Architect (NORMA) for Visual Studio is a free, open source ORM tool now released as a "community technology preview".

ORM2 Syntax Primer: Constraints
This post finishes the series on ORM2 with a discussion of changes to constraint display.

ORM2 Syntax Primer: Object types, predicates, roles, and nesting
This post discusses the changes coming in ORM2 with respect to object types, predicates, roles, and nested predicates.