Looking at my huge maven configs for cgen/cdbimport (profiles, driver
dependencies, etc), I am thinking we can drastically simplify that. I mean 100
lines of XML to handle a single DataMap is a bit too much. Some raw ideas:
1. a new generic plugin combining both cgen/cdbimport ("csync"). "cgen" part
will run unconditionally (as model changes can happen without db changes),
"cdbimport" - based on the presence of some property (such as DB password).
2. a set of DB-specific plugins, inheriting from "csync". E.g. "csync-mysql",
"csync-oracle", etc. so that the users don't have to worry about including the
right driver versions, etc. We can also guess default JDBC URLs for a given
type of DB on localhost, and simplify other settings. This may have to be done
on Github outside Apache (some drivers are GPL, some - commercial, so we can't
have a hard dependency on those).
In parallel to that there are ideas to include cdbimport filter files in the
main Cayenne project (and the Modeler), so Maven can automatically discover
them from cayenne-xx.xml.
I think there's lots of potential in cdbimport/cgen workflow, just that the
tools are not yet easy to use.
Andrus
