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

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

Hi Ian,

Ian Lim wrote:

  > Hi
  >
  > Forward engineering and backward engineering.
  > Sounds familiar...
  >



Sure, this is not a new invention.


  > What do you all think about Torque's approach ?
  >


I don't know anything about Torque. Maybe someone (Jason ?) may explain
the Torque approach and what we can learn for the forward/reverse
engineering topic (or in general) from it.

thanks,

Thomas


  > Just my 2 cents thought
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  > Ian Lim
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  > ----- Original Message -----
  > From: "Thomas Mahler" <tho...@ho...>
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  > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 01:41 AM
  > Subject: [OJB-developers] Re: Visual Tool?
  >
  >
  >
  >>Hi Alan,
  >>
  >>Thanks for your interest!
  >>
  >>Alan Mellor wrote:
  >>
  >> > Hi,
  >> >
  >> > Great project in OJB. I have a question that I could not find 
answered
  >> > in the FAQ ( ... during the time I spent, perhaps ... )
  >> >
  >>
  >>
  >>There is a roadmap document (http://objectbridge.sf.net/roadmap.html)
  >>laying out the current status and our future plans.
  >>
  >>
  >> > Is the XML O/R mapping metadata entered by hand, or via a visual 
tool?
  >>
  >>
  >>currently it must be edited manually. But we definitely want to have
  >>such a tool.
  >>I would like to something like the TOPLink mapping workbench, which
  >>provides quite a lot of well structured engineering features.
  >>
  >>
  >> >
  >> > 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!
  >>
  >>Apart from providing mapping functionality (which allow to map existing
  >>java classes on existing RDBMS tables) we want to have forward- and
  >>reverse engineering features in this workbench :
  >>- from a Java Class model to an xml-repository and to RDBMS tables
  >>- from tables to classes and to an xml-repository.
  >>- from a xml-repository to classes and tables.
  >>
  >>There have been several discussions on this topic in the forums.
  >>There is also an outdated entry in the SourceForge TaskManager sketching
  >>my overall idea.
  >>
  >>There is also a contrib package on the download page
  >>(contrib-0.7.343.tgz). This archive contains some experimental code
  >>regarding DDL generation.
  >>
  >>There is also another SourceForge project (DBGen) that provides
  >>generation of java classes from RDBMS tables.
  >>The code generated won't match for OJB but maybe it's a good point to
  >>start from.
  >>
  >>thanks for your offer to help again,
  >>cheers,
  >>
  >>Thomas
  >>
  >>
  >> > Cheers,
  >> > Alan Mellor.
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