1. At a computer system including a processor and a memory, in a computer networking environment including a plurality of computing systems, a computer-implemented method for mapping relational input data into a graph of objects using object-relational mapping (ORM) metadata, the method comprising: an act of a generic database application receiving a portion of input data from a database, the generic database application being configured to communicate with the database using at least one of a variety of different database schemas; an act of the generic database application inferring a portion of ORM metadata from the at least one database schema, the ORM metadata being associated with the received input data, the ORM metadata including an indication of database object properties and database schema settings associated with the database objects; an act of accessing a generic ORM query, the ORM query being configured to provide mapping information to map the input data into a graph of objects according to the database object properties included in the ORM metadata; an act of mapping the input data into a graph of objects, as indicated in the accessed ORM query, using the database object properties included in the ORM metadata; and an act of displaying an ORM object view which includes the graph of objects, the object view representing at least a portion of the input data in an appropriate manner as indicated in the received ORM metadata.