So I feel like the advent of agentic coding opens up new possibilities for 
CayenneModeler. While some want you to think you can simply prompt Claude to 
"Rewrite CayenneModeler in JavaFX" (or Electron or JetBrains Compose 
Multiplatform), still with our limited resources, building and supporting an 
entirely new thing is realistically out of reach. 

But I think we can take the current Swing app to a new level by augmenting our 
rusty Swing skills with AI. A few of my experiments adding this or that UI 
piece were mostly successful. A few idea on top of my mind:

1. A built-in MCP server for DB Import and CGen. This is to close the loop on 
agentic coding, allowing to use both of these tools from an agent CLI. (The MCP 
idea was what prompted me to look into this to begin with)
2. Fix table editors UX (selections conflicting with cell editors)
3. Write unit tests
4. Modernizing L&F. Not sure how far we can get while staying in Swing, but 
worth a try. Looking at FlatLaf lib, which is a successor of JGoodies that we 
already use
5. Implement dozens of small usability features (such as showing currently 
selected Obj|DbEntity in tab view headers, etc.)

My first pass (about 70% done) was not anything visual, but rather refactoring 
the existing messy code to rid it of various architectural experiments 
accumulated over the years (such as auto-bindings) and unifying the MVC 
structure to be as close as possible to vanilla Swing. Ironically, Claude was 
not that helpful in this process. It was good old IDE refactoring, manually 
going through hundreds of files chasing dead code and inconsistencies. 

Anyways, just putting this on the radar.

Andrus

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