Re: [OJB-developers] Re: Visual Tool?

[Thomas M. <tho...@ho...>]

Hi again Charles,

Charles Anthony wrote:
<snip>

 >
 > Our system will be a very large one, and it is currently modelled in 
Rational
 >  Rose. Rose can also generate Data Models from Object Models (allowing
 >  the user to make important mapping decisions - it's not all automated
 >  !), and the DDL from the Data Model (as well as java classes from the
 >  Object Model). A couple of months ago, I investigated writing
 > scripts for Rose to generate the mapping file; whilst I didn't
 > finish the script, I did find out enough to show that it is
 > possible.
 >
 > Anyway, writing the script is on my ToDo list, and when I get round
 > to it, I will happily contribute it to the project - if anyone
 > thinks it would be useful, that is.
 >


Yes of course this may be useful. We now have a contributions archive
for each release that contains stuff that is not part of the official
OJB distribution (i.e. not maintained by us). I think it will be the
ideal place for your scripts.


 > The majority of people don't have Rose, so a GUI tool is still
 > needed - but I thought it might be fruitful to show that there are
 > other ways to create the mapping file.
 >

right!
Some time ago someone (sorry, I don't remember his name right now) send 
me a
patched version of ArgoUML (OpenSource UML tool) that could generate 
everything
from an UML model.
This was definitely a good approach, but unfortunately ArgoUML did not 
provide a plugin mechanism which would allow to distribute a small 
plugin an not a complete sourcelevel patched ArgoUML.

cu,

Thomas