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

[Florian B. <bf...@fl...>]

Hi,

>  >
>  > If there is no visual tool, would it be appreciated if I contributed
>  > one, written using Swing and JDK 1.4.0?
>  >
>
>
> Sure! OJB relies much on such contributions. We are not sponsored by a
> company or any other organisation.
>                 So everything (even rough code sketches, design ideas,
> contructive criticizm if definitely appreciated!
>

Then I think I have something to share here. Some time ago I started writing
a small tool that visualises a database structure. It never really left the
state of a design study, its main purpose was for me to get some insight on
the DatabaseMetadata interface. As I've seen this discussion I did some
quick hacks and it is now able to generate the XML-Mapping and the related
Java-classes (going the hard way with just doing some String concatenation).

While this code is poorly designed and without any comments it still could
maybe serve as a starting point for reverse engineering a database
structure, as this was not as easy as it seemed first. As always with JDBC,
every vendor implements the DatabaseMetadata interface differently.

If you want to use it as a starting point or just as inspiration I could
spend some time on commenting the code and I also would be more than happy
to participate in such a project.

best regards,
Florian