Visual Paradigm International today announced the release of Visual Paradigm Suite 3.0 SP2. In this release, we strengthen the ORM and database engineering support by introducing four new features, including the reverse engineering of ERD from DDL and Hibernate annotations support. General modeling features are improved as well. You can now embed images into documentation, as well as saving documentation as template. There are also some other new and enhanced features related to code engineering and multilingual support. Please read below for details.

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A DDL (Data Definition Language) file is a computer language for defining data. Now, you can also use it to generate ERD models like entities, views and relationships by reversing the DDL.

Reverse DDL to ERD models

Besides supporting rich text documentation for models and diagrams, you can now further visualize your concept by incorporating images into documentation.

Learn more about Enrich documentation of model with images

Using documentation template to reuse pre-defined documentation structure to save time and effort.

Save/load template for documentation of model

Our Entity Relationship Diagram supports visual modeling with stored procedures, you can create and edit stored procedures easily in an intuitive diagramming environment.

Modeling with Stored Procedures

Our Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) persistence technology generates Java code that helps you manipulate relational database records in an object-oriented way. Now a new option is provided for generating code with Hibernate annotations.

Learn more about Hibernate annotations support in ORM persistence

For Hibernate’s optimistic concurrency control to work, you need to add the version tag to mapping files. Here you will learn how to specify the version column in ERD entity so that concurrency control can be implemented in the generated ORM libraries.

Learn more about Generate Hibernate version tag for optimistic concurrency control

To allow software modelers and developers work together regardlessly of the language they use, our multilingual user interface is further enhanced to cover IDE integration.

Multilingual support in IDE integration

Instant generator allows you to generate source code for many popular programming languages. Now this feature is enhanced to support Ada 95.

Learn more about Generate Ada95

Instant generator allows you to generate source code for many popular programming languages, including Flash ActionScript. Now this feature is enhanced to support ActionScript version 3.0.

Learn more about Generate Flash ActionScript 3.0

Folder reference enables you to navigate to a specific folder from a model that you assigned the reference to. This feature is similar to file/URL/diagram reference in earlier release.

Learn more about Support of Folder Reference