Paladin is a generic, feature-rich object persistent framework that is architectured for today's competitive rapid application development (RAD) environment. It comprises of two key components - a core library and a suite of tools that developers can easily use to rapidly engineer the foundation of their applications. The core library provides the basic services that are required by most applications, from object-relational mapping and automating SQL generation in the data access layer to providing transaction and simple workflow services in the business services layer. It also provides a powerful code generator that helps developers to automate the task of building business entity objects that are immediately usable on the framework.