Determining Database Structures

Hi, I am currently working on my dissertation and I'm just wondering if anybody knows of a simple way to retrieve the structure of a database and represent this in an OOP fashion. i.e. does anybody know of any other open source projects which achieve this.

I'm aware of the hibernate and persistence projects but these require you to know the structure of the database your accessing and create a mapping file. I need to be able to retrieve the structure of the database and then automatically create an oop representation of this.

I hope thats clear,

Thank you in advance.

Ash

[611 byte] By [ashleywalkera] at [2007-11-26 20:32:48]