devaki-nextobjects features

  • Draw Entity - Relation Diagrams also known as Conceptual Model (CDM).
  • Draw Physical Data Models (PDM).
  • Deduce physical database design from Conceptual Data Model applying rules of the Merise method.
  • Generates SQL for 15 of most wanted SGDBs using shipped Torque Generatorand so features strongly designed, upscalable code generation (also featuring velocity).
  • Stick to the Object Relational Mappig of the Turbine framework.
  • Export Models to image/png.
  • Import models from database throught JDBC.
  • Nextobjects is under the GNU/Public License.
  • Load / save maven's project.xml.

Be aware of what it's not.

devaki-nextobjects is not yet another UML design tool. There are some excellents like ArgoUML It just stick to the UML convention in it's paradigm.

Designing database may require several points of view : it is not a database browser, it's not a reverse engineering tool.

It is not an Eclipse plugin. It have never appeared to be neccessary.

It's not a code generator.

As often in the database playground it can't really deal with inheritancy.