ObjectReef Reviews — Discover what people think of this product.

ObjectReef, as it is referred to, is a development tool for creating web services based on model-driven development methodology.

It relies on the fact that you declare classes, their attributes, operations and relationships between them. You are only interested in the business domain, and the technicalities such as storage, database, cache, API controllers are handled by the engine.

So you can quickly and easily create an advanced backend service without knowing what a database is and without writing SQL queries.

Based on the class declarations, a database (MySQL) and API are generated, to which you can connect with any frontend client.

ObjectReef has its own programming language, which is OOP, but with a strong declarative emphasis as in functional languages. It's really simple and easy to use, as there's no standard library or framework to learn. The language itself is heavily inspired by what was invented 20 years ago at IBM in the insurance department for specifying the intricacies of business rules by non-technical people.

From the point of view of the level of abstraction, ObjectReef is between classic technologies and low-code, because everything is written using vscode (plaintext), but it doesn't have many of the limitations that force low-code frameworks.

It is suitable wherever there is a lot of work on relational data i.e. generally business applications like CRM, ERP, HR, project management, billing systems, etc.