Re: [Webmacro-devel] Hello and an associated project

[Patrick W. <ct...@ya...>]

Thanks for the reply.


> A lot of us here are doing code generation with WM.  The code 
> generation I'm doing is very specific to my little world.  It'll be 
> interesting to see something that is a bit more flexible.

Yeah, I've been missing having a basic templating tool when I run into a
case where I need to pump out new solutions. I've tried various things
(like XSL) but found them limiting or verbose.

Part of my goal is to create a series of directives and classes that solve
different code-generation problems; sort of like a set of targeted macros
used for different code generation problems. Design-wise, I'm influenced
the the DB modelling tool ERWin, which had a SQL-model specific macro
language which I found much more useful that a general-purpose macro
language.

> > So far I'm working on a set of classes that map database metadata
> using
> > JDBC, and testing them in different configurations to see how useful 
> > they
> 
> any thoughts of using XML as well?

XML for reading a DB schema? Yeah, that would be completely doable, only
problem is I haven't found an industry-std schema for DDL. Have you seen
one? The interface to the WM world is through Java classes, not through
JDBC directly, so instantiating those from XML shouldn't be hard, as long
as the schema is std.



patrick

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