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

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

Hi Florian,

I had a look at your tool. I like it very much.
It's already quite powerful for reverse engineering JDBC datasources.
It should be made a part of the OJB Mapping tool!


Is it OK for you to add it to the contributions directory until we have
started with the "official" tool?

Do you want to maintain the package naming at.citec... ?
I would prefer to use ojb.tools.mapping or something like that.

cu,

Thomas

Florian Bruckner wrote:

 > 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
 >