Abstract

As the Object-Oriented programming technique becomes more and more popular in contemporary software design, issues related to persistent objects must be addressed. This thesis introduces a framework for Object-Relational Mapping. The framework is intended to simplify the handling of persistent objects in a Relational Database System. The framework's architecture consists of two layers: an object layer that contains the infrastructure for persistent objects and a storage layer that provides an interface to the Physical Storage System. As contributions, I have introduced my original work including mapping inheritance with inheritance, a particular solution for aggregation and associations mapping, a cache of object references for constructing objects and name conventions for preserving object maps. The Framework for Object-Relational Mapping is a C++ Framework (a set of Classes). It supports most of relational database systems. Developers can use these classes to obtain abilities about object relational mapping. In this thesis, a teaching assignment planner project is used to test my framework's performance in saving coding work.