<s>
The	O
RISE	B-Application
Editor	I-Application
is	O
a	O
free	O
information	B-Application
modeling	I-Application
tool	O
for	O
information	O
system	O
development	O
based	O
on	O
model	B-Language
driven	I-Language
development	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
modeling	O
takes	O
place	O
in	O
Entity	B-Architecture
Relationship	I-Architecture
Diagrams	I-Architecture
(	O
ERD	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
layout	O
for	O
these	O
diagrams	O
can	O
be	O
changed	O
to	O
Relational	B-Application
Database	I-Application
or	O
Unified	B-Language
Modeling	I-Language
Language	I-Language
(	O
UML	B-Language
)	O
,	O
the	O
functionality	O
stays	O
the	O
same	O
though	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Technically	O
speaking	O
,	O
RISE	O
is	O
a	O
model-driven	B-Language
engineering	I-Language
(	O
MDE	B-Language
)	O
tool	O
with	O
semantics	O
and	O
functionality	O
that	O
is	O
specialized	O
for	O
the	O
application-domain	O
of	O
information	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
model	O
in	O
RISE	O
is	O
more	O
than	O
an	O
information	B-Application
model	I-Application
,	O
it	O
's	O
an	O
information	B-Application
model	I-Application
complete	O
with	O
the	O
methods	O
needed	O
to	O
govern	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
the	O
information	O
in	O
the	O
model	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Such	O
a	O
model	O
is	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
a	O
MIM	O
,	O
or	O
managed	O
information	B-Application
model	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
a	O
managed	O
information	B-Application
model	I-Application
is	O
automatically	O
transformed	O
into	O
a	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
in	O
all	O
,	O
this	O
is	O
what	O
's	O
commonly	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
a	O
model-driven	B-Architecture
architecture	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
domain	O
is	O
a	O
suitable	O
candidate	O
for	O
model-driven	B-Language
engineering	I-Language
if	O
different	O
solutions	O
for	O
the	O
domain	O
show	O
noticeable	O
similarities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
good	O
MDE	B-Language
tool	O
is	O
one	O
that	O
focuses	O
on	O
and	O
addresses	O
these	O
similarities	O
whereas	O
a	O
bad	O
MDE	B-Language
tool	O
is	O
one	O
that	O
diverts	O
attentions	O
from	O
the	O
problem	O
domain	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
domain	O
of	O
RISE	O
,	O
information	O
systems	O
in	O
the	O
sense	O
of	O
database-centric	O
systems	O
managing	O
business	O
information	O
,	O
is	O
an	O
obvious	O
candidate	O
for	O
MDE	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Information	B-Application
models	I-Application
are	O
drawn	O
in	O
and	O
shown	O
using	O
Entity	B-Architecture
Relationship	I-Architecture
Diagrams	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
a	O
space	O
efficient	O
and	O
unambiguous	O
way	O
to	O
represent	O
an	O
information	B-Application
model	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
ER	O
does	O
n't	O
introduce	O
any	O
constructs	O
or	O
abstractions	O
that	O
are	O
n't	O
native	O
in	O
the	O
world	O
of	O
information	B-Application
modeling	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Method	O
modeling	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
fact	O
that	O
methods	O
operate	O
on	O
an	O
information	B-Application
model	I-Application
,	O
i.e.	O
</s>
<s>
Databases	O
are	O
incrementally	O
updated	O
during	O
code	B-Application
generation	I-Application
,	O
assuring	O
sync	O
with	O
the	O
modeling	O
project	O
while	O
preserving	O
the	O
current	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Actually	O
,	O
this	O
could	O
be	O
seen	O
as	O
a	O
requirement	O
for	O
efficient	O
model-driven	B-Language
engineering	I-Language
in	O
the	O
information	O
system	O
domain	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
RISE	O
suit	O
provides	O
a	O
range	O
of	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
for	O
transforming	O
RISE	O
models	O
into	O
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
RISE	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
is	O
a	O
separate	O
software	O
application	O
that	O
operates	O
on	O
a	O
RISE	O
model	O
(	O
XML	B-Protocol
file	O
)	O
and	O
produces	O
some	O
kind	O
of	O
output	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
two	O
main	O
categories	O
of	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
:	O
database	O
script	O
generators	O
and	O
application	O
source	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
RISE	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
can	O
be	O
launched	O
in	O
several	O
different	O
ways	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
an	O
integrated	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
RISE	B-Application
Editor	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
database	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
write	O
incremental	O
scripts	O
for	O
creating	O
,	O
and	O
updating	O
,	O
relational	B-Architecture
database	I-Architecture
models	I-Architecture
based	O
on	O
the	O
RISE	O
model	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
translates	O
this	O
life-cycle	O
into	O
an	O
incremental	O
database	O
specific	O
script	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Currently	O
,	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
for	O
SQL	B-Application
Server	I-Application
,	O
MySQL	B-Application
and	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
are	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
application	O
source	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
render	O
code	O
,	O
in	O
a	O
particular	O
programming	O
language	O
,	O
for	O
working	O
with	O
databases	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
RISE	O
model	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Both	O
SOAP	B-Application
and	O
JSON	B-General_Concept
style	O
web	O
services	O
are	O
supported	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Currently	O
,	O
two	O
languages	O
are	O
supported	O
C#	B-Application
(	O
.NET	O
)	O
and	O
PHP	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
C#	B-Application
for	O
ODBC	B-Application
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
outputs	O
code	O
handling	O
three	O
databases	O
(	O
SQL	B-Application
Server	I-Application
,	O
MySQL	B-Application
and	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
PHP	B-Application
there	O
are	O
two	O
different	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
,	O
PHP	B-Application
for	O
MySQL	B-Application
and	O
PHP	B-Application
for	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
,	O
creating	O
source	O
code	O
using	O
the	O
respective	O
database	O
native	O
driver	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
also	O
an	O
AJAX	B-General_Concept
code	B-Application
generator	I-Application
for	O
RISE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
renders	O
JavaScript	B-Language
source	O
code	O
,	O
that	O
uses	O
jQuery	B-Language
,	O
for	O
accessing	O
JSON	B-General_Concept
enabled	O
web	O
services	O
in	O
Rich	B-Application
Internet	I-Application
Applications	I-Application
or	O
AJAX	B-General_Concept
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
generated	O
code	O
is	O
compliant	O
with	O
any	O
JSON	B-General_Concept
enabled	O
web	O
service	O
,	O
.NET	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
PHP	B-Application
,	O
generated	O
from	O
the	O
same	O
RISE	O
model	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
generators	O
for	O
creating	O
and	O
incrementally	O
updating	O
of	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Application	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
for	O
persistent	O
layer	O
,	O
programming	O
interface	O
,	O
web	O
services	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
1	O
)	O
The	O
utility	O
tool	O
and	O
import	O
functionality	O
works	O
with	O
most	O
ODBC	B-Application
compliant	O
databases	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Note	O
,	O
this	O
includes	O
databases	O
for	O
which	O
there	O
are	O
,	O
currently	O
,	O
no	O
code	B-Application
generators	I-Application
.	O
</s>
