Hi Linus,
It would be good to hear from Kai as we did not think adding a project with the same goals as argouml-sql would be good. Long term we could merge the projects but we don't know enough about argouml-sql. We were also wanting this to have some identity as a database modeling tool. If it's on the ArgoUML site then people familiar with ArgoUML would find it, but people looking for an open source database modeling tool might not. If Kai agrees, maybe we could add it as a project to ArgoUML and have a SourceForge site that refers to the Argo site? Jeff ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Linus Tolke Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [argouml-dev] argouml-sql Hello Jeff! This sounds great. I could create another project for you on tigris if you can just come up with another name. argouml-db? argouml-sql2? argouml-reverse-engineering-sql? (This might be too long to be accepted ;-) The best thing would be if you could provide both implementations from the same project and eventually a merge to provide the best possible features for the users of ArgoUML. /Linus 2007/9/13, Gunderson, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It's taken longer than I would expect but we finally have our module working now with the ArgoUML 2.4 version. We are thinking of putting it up on SourceForge as there already an argouml-sql project. If anyone wants to see the User Guide or wants me to send the module let me know. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Gunderson, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [argouml-dev] argouml-sql Yes, the tool can already generate SQL for the databases below and can reverse engineer an existing database. The profile we are using is described in the document I sent. I'll try to get the project available for open source as soon as I can. Until then, I could put together a running version based on an older version of argouml if you want to see it. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Kai Drahmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [argouml-dev] argouml-sql > A while back we worked on an argouml plug-in for SQL support. We had to > shelve the project with changing priorities but we are dusting it off > again as we see a fit with our warehousing products. After getting back > into argouml I noticed the argouml-sql project and thought there could > be an opportunity to work together. > > The plug-in uses a UML profile for modeling SQL and provides support for > generating models from a database catalog and generating SQL to create > and update a catalog from a model. It provides support for generic, > Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL datatbases. The profile is somewhat > similar to the UML profile used by Rational for modeling SQL. I > attached a document on the profile if you are interested. So the tool can already generate SQL for the databases you mentioned and reverse engineer an existing database? But perhaps only using the profile you use for modelling. I used a profile that's based on Scott Ambler's profile at: http://www.agiledata.org/essays/umlDataModelingProfile.html I modified it a bit to be able to design a logical relational datamodel. And perhaps you could extract the important information of the attached document so I can compare the two profiles. > There are several hurdles. We have not worked on the project in a year > and argouml has changed quite a bit. So it's taking a bit of work to > get it to the latest version. Also, we are working to make the project > available as open source. Like Tom said it could be a good idea to publish the sources and let others also have a look on it. I would especially be interested in adapting the different code generators for Oracle etc. to fit into the current structure of ArgoUML-SQL. Kai -- Müritz COMP Greifswald Computersystemhaus GmbH An der Jungfernwiese 2 17489 Greifswald Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stralsund Registernummer: HRB 4035 Geschäftsführer: Alexander Lang, Torsten Marx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
