Hi Maik, Glad to hear you are finally trying out Cayenne! :)
>> To that end, what is the usual procedure to test changes made against the >> modeler? Can I run it from within Eclipse? Or do I need to mvn install >> every time I changed something? (Note that I'm new to both Cayenne and >> Maven.) Yes, you can run Modeler from Eclipse without reassembly. Just use the cross-platform Main class (org.apache.cayenne.modeler.Main). There are no special arguments or any other tricks. Andrus > On Aug 3, 2016, at 9:57 PM, John Huss <[email protected]> wrote: > > A pull request is preferred now. > > The biggest problem with the importer that I recall was that it was > completely unaware of prototypes (ERPrototypes) so that basically made it > worthless for me. Are you having that problem? Reverse-engineering from > the database itself can work well as an alternative if your names use > underscores. > > John > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 1:53 PM Musall Maik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've got a rather large project to migrate from EOF to Cayenne, and in >> order to eliminate the manual cleanup steps I'd have to do after each >> conversion attempt until I'm ready for the final run, I thought I could >> have a look and try to improve the EOModel importer instead of wasting time >> fiddling with my one project. >> >> To that end, what is the usual procedure to test changes made against the >> modeler? Can I run it from within Eclipse? Or do I need to mvn install >> every time I changed something? (Note that I'm new to both Cayenne and >> Maven.) >> >> How am I supposed to contribute the changes? Pull request against the >> github mirror? The website [1] suggest submitting a patch, but that feels >> so old-school, and the website still explains how to create a patch with >> subversion, so I guess that's no longer up to date anyway? >> >> Thanks >> Maik >> >> [1] https://cayenne.apache.org/submit-patch.html >> >>
