Converting SQL databases to Enterprise JAVA Beans, when using conventional methods, has become a tedious, error-prone, time-consuming task. The invention, called BeanGrinder, automates the task so that a process hitherto taking days or weeks can be accomplished in matters of minutes. The user selects the databases to be converted, the tables for the resulting data, the target location, and the application server. Then, the user runs the BeanGrinder before running two batch command file programs to complete the task. The user is relieved of the need to write special conversion programs for every database to be converted.