The Hera Application Framework is a powerful object persistence framework designed to aid you in the development of data-driven applications. It relieves you from the time-consuming task of having to program the data transformation process between your data source and your object oriented business model. This functionality is being added automatically to your .NET classes at-runtime, based on the data source and the mapping which defines how the two relate to one another. By doing this at-runtime, the framework can determine the most optimal way of implementing this functionality, and therefore guarantee a higher performance. It also enables..