I was reading this:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/02/02/sqlmaps.html

I thought it was a pretty good way to separate out the SLQ and mappings.

I was wondering if anyone had implemented something like that in Perl. What would be considered O/R in the house of Perl?

Here are 10 reasons they give for Java using SQLMaps:

10  Works with any database that has a JDBC driver (no plugins required)
9   Configurable caching (including dependencies)
8   Local and Global transaction support and management
7   Simple XML mapping document structure
6   Supports Map, Collection, List and Primitive Wrappers
5   Supports JavaBeans classes (get/set methods)
4   Supports complex object mappings (populating lists, complex object models etc.)
3   Object models are never perfect (no changes required!)
2   Database designs are never perfect (no changes required!)
1   You already know SQL, why waste time learning something else?

Of course, some of those are Java specific, but I like the idea behind it.

Thoughts and opinions welcome!

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