Interesting. Thanks for sharing! I wrote something for Java roughly 20 years ago (before ORM was really a thing). Of course I enhanced as needed over the years

Interesting. Thanks for sharing! I wrote something for Java roughly 20 years ago (before ORM was really a thing). Of course I enhanced as needed over the years, but have used it heavily. It supports any DB with a JDBC driver and has easily saved me more time than anything else. There's not even a close second. It's a pure code generator with a UI on top. You write an SQL select stub that references columns/tables for one or more tables, then provide the class name you want to generate. You then add any number of where clauses (including join conditions and parameterized placeholders). For each where clause, you use checkboxes to indicate what you want generated: select, update, insert, upsert, delete. When the code is generated, all column-to-object field mappings, including types, are resolved through inspection of metadata (provided by the JDBC driver). Property names for the resulting domain objects are also generated using snake to camel case translations and, of course, methods resulting from parameterized statements include parameters of the correct types. So, instead of having, say, a User class with a Profile class, which has an Image class, each with its own properties representing the full set of columns for the underlying table, you frequently need a limited subset of each combined into one object. For instance, a ProfileListView might need username, email, first and last from user; profile_pic_id, slug, and short_bio from profile; and thumb_filename from image. There's more to it, but I took this join approach vs the "one table to one object" model because I found early that you frequently need different views of the data, based on different use cases. So, it's a way to flatten the underlying relational model when needed. Not perfect, of course, but the best thing going when I built it. And since, I never found an ORM that was worth the switch.