Skipper (computer software)

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Skipper (former ORM Designer)
Developer(s) Inventic, s.r.o.
Initial releaseDecember 2009
Operating system Cross-platform [1]
Available inEnglish, Czech
Type Visualization software
License Proprietary software
Website www.skipper18.com

Skipper is a visualization tool and code/schema generator for PHP ORM frameworks like Doctrine2, Doctrine, Propel, and CakePHP, which are used to create database abstraction layer. [2] [3] [4] [5] Skipper is developed by Czech company Inventic, s.r.o. based in Brno, [2] and was known as ORM Designer prior to rebranding in 2014. [6]

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Overview

Architecture

Skipper was built on the Qt framework. Import/export of the schema definitions uses XSL transformations powered by LibXslt library. Imported source files are first converted to XML format: no conversion for XML, simple conversion for YML, creating the Abstract Syntax Tree and its subsequent conversion to XML for PHP annotations. The import/export scripts are configured in JavaScript and can be freely customized. [11]

Supported ORM frameworks

Frameworks supported for visual model and schema files generation: [12]

History

Skipper was created as an internal tool for the web applications developed by Inventic. It was first published as a commercial tool under the name ORM Designer in 2009. [13] [14] Application was reworked and optimized in January 2013, and released as ORM Designer 2. [11] [15] In May 2013 ORM Designer became part of the South Moravian Innovation Center Incubator program (support program for innovative technological startups). [14] [16] [17] In June 2014, ORM Designer version 3 was released and rebranded under the name of Skipper [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Supported platforms Archived 2014-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "ORM Designer". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "ORM Designer". 12 May 2010.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "PHP5 Magazine: ORM Designer Reviewed". php5.phpmagazine.net. Archived from the original on 16 September 2010. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "Symfony2 cheat sheet". www.symfony2cheatsheet.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-03.
  6. 1 2 "Press Release: Skipper Skipper - the ORM Designer Blog".
  7. ↑ "Extending ORM Attributes | ORM Designer". Archived from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  8. ↑ "Extending script files | ORM Designer". Archived from the original on 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  9. ↑ "MySQL Workbench | ORM Designer". Archived from the original on 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  10. ↑ "ORM Designer – Quick Review « Stacktrace('dev-KRTCS.net')". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  11. 1 2 "Magic behind ORM Designer | ORM Designer Blog". Archived from the original on 2014-04-26. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  12. ↑ "Supported Platforms | ORM Designer". Archived from the original on 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  13. ↑ "New tool – ORM Designer | ORM Designer Blog". Archived from the original on 2014-02-23. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  14. 1 2 "goaleurope.com/ORM-Designer-raises-funding-from-angel-investor". Archived from the original on 2014-07-26. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  15. ↑ "Mladí programátoři z Brna zdražili svůj software trojnásobně. Prodeje zůstaly stejné". 10 July 2013.
  16. ↑ "Do JIC Innovation parku se hlásí 41 firem, nejlepší vyberou Rostock, Všianský a Berdár". 12 March 2013.
  17. ↑ "Companies in the Innovation Park". Archived from the original on 2014-02-25. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
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