DB Visual ARCHITECT, a sophisticated Object to Relational mapping designer and code generator to you. DB-VA generate real executable persistence code, persistence layer and database (DDL or direct execute to the database). You can focus on developing business logic and user interface without care about the database issue. The persistence layer of the DB-VA is build on top of the most popular persistence layer, Hibernate.

There is no vendor lock on when adopting DB-VA. All generated code can run on all popular relational database (e.g. MySQL, Oralce, SQL Server, DB2) and Application Server (e.g. JBoss, WebLogic Server ....). To know more about how DB-VA can help, please visit the Java ORM resource page at
http://resource.visual-paradigm.com/orm.html#java_orm

You can use DB-VA to:
+Design your object model by UML Class Diagram
+Design your database by Entity Relational Database (ERD)
+Generate Class Diagram from ERD
+Generate ERD from Class Diagram
+Generate POJO, DAO, Factory, Static method style persistence Java code
+Generate Database Schema (DDL)
+Reverse engineering of ERD from DDL (New Feature)
+Generate Hibernate annotations in ORM persistence (New Feature)
+Generate Hibernate version tag for optimistic concurrency control (New Feature)
+Create table directly from dialog box
+Shape editor
+Fast project loading and saving speed
+Modeling collaboratively with CVS and Subversion
+Interoperability with UML2 model (UML2.x metamodel for eclipse platform) through XMI
+Incorporate images into documentation (New Feature)
+Export diagrams to JPG, PNG, SVG, EMF, PDF (Enhanced)
and more.....

DB-VA home page:
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/dbva/

DB-VA Quick Tour:
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/dbva/dbvaquicktour.jsp

Programmer's Guide for Java:
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/dbva/dbvajavaguide.jsp

Screen shot:
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/dbva/dbvascreenshots.jsp