robert burrell donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday, May 1, 2001, at 09:31 PM, Nick Afshartous wrote:
>
> > Several months ago on the struts-user list there was a discussion on
> > automatically deriving Java classes from a datamodel and creating
> > beans to be used in forms. See:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01589.html
> >
> > In the interim we have done some prototyping work to define a datamodel in
> > XML and XSLT stylesheets to generate Java code.
>
> have you looked at texen (see http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/texen)?
> for source generation from xml, velocity is *much* better than XSLT
> stylesheets.
I concur with Robert -- Velocity lends itself far more handily to such
an endeavor than XSLT ever could.
> turbine has been using this approach to generate the kind of stuff
> that you're proposing for quite some time now (see
> http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/howto/torque-howto.html).
We've been using Torque in Tigris for quite some time now, and it
works like a charm.
Daniel Rall
