ORM

In the context of RIMBAA, ORM stands for "Object Relational Mapper" (software which maps Class structures to ER databases).

• For underlying methodology, see this essay and ORMFoundation.org.
• See [1] for reasons as to why one shoud use ORM

JPA

• The Java Persistence API (JPA) is an example of an ORM. See [2] and [3] for details.