Sculptor is totally separate from the other cartridges. Sculptor uses a textual DSL and generates a "whole" application from gui to backend database mapping. The other cartridges focus on more isolated areas, such as hibernate mapping. /Patrik
Ryan Gardner wrote: > > I'm trying to get my head wrapped around Fornax, namely how I get > started using it and what modules I am able to use. > > One thing that I find somewhat confusing is the bifurcation of the > Sculptor pieces and the UML2 pieces. For instance, there seem to be > cartridges for Sculptor and there seem to be cartridges for UML2. The > UML2 ones seem to be similar to what I want - i.e. hibernate, spring, > etc. > > Are the sculptor pieces completely separate from the UML pieces? > > I was evaluating AndroMDA, and liked a lot of what it provides by the > way of sterotypes.. etc. for UML modeling of the domain model, but > Andro seems to be a dying project and there were a few things about > it that I didn't like. > > I'm not a UML bigot, and I am just fine using a DSL to define my > domain model - in fact, I'm pretty sure I can do it a lot faster in a > text editor than I can in a UML editor - but I'm wondering which > branch is more powerful in terms of cartridges - the Sculptor DSL > cartidges or the UML2 pieces. > > A lot of the maven artifacts in the repository seem to be very outdated. > > Is there a place that has an up-to-date reference on how to get > started with Fornax? And perhaps a place that explains why there is a > set of UML2 cartidges and a set of sculptor cartidges? > > Ryan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ > Fornax-developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fornax-developer > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wrapping-my-head-around-Fornax...-tp18267073s17564p18268728.html Sent from the Fornax-Platform mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Fornax-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fornax-developer
