I will have to think about that but I would be inclined to agree with you.
The question is: are you going to code that data access layer yourself, let the source be generated for you by a tool, or let a persistence layer figure it out by itself according to a mapping file that you give it.
>Hi neighbor, my mistake, I thought you meant ORM as in Object Role Modeling.
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>From my perspective, an object model and a data model are both logical views of a conceptual model. If the data and object models can be derived from the conceptual model, then so can the data access layer that goes between them.
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>jMM