Alzabo 0.91

Alzabo is a Perl module with data modelling tool and RDBMS-OO mapper.

SYNOPSIS

Cannot be summarized here.

What is Alzabo?

Alzabo is a suite of modules with two core functions. Its first use is as a data modelling tool. Through either a schema creation GUI, a perl program, or reverse engineering, you can create a set objects to represent a schema.
Its second function is as an RDBMS to object mapping system. Once you have created a schema, you can use the Alzabo::Runtime::Table and Alzabo::Runtime::Row classes to access its data. These classes offer a high level interface to common operations such as SQL SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE commands.

Because you can manipulate construct queries through object-oriented Perl, creating complex queries on the fly is much easier than it would be if you had to dynamically construct strings of SQL.

A higher level interface can be created through the use of the Alzabo::MethodMaker module. This module takes a schema object and auto-generates useful methods based on the tables, columns, and relationships it finds in the module. The code is generates can be integrated with your own code quite easily.

To take it a step further, you could then aggregate a set of rows from different tables into a larger container object which could understand the logical relationship between these tables.