Hi Joost, I'm cc-ing to Middlegen's user list. Might be of general interest.
> Am I correct in my understanding that the database > structure is always the source for your domain-model > when using middlegen? > Yes. > If so; it is often the case that the db structure is > leading of course but I thought it would conceptually > be more right to have an abstract domain model and use > that as the source for both db-schema and ejb-tier. That It depends on the landscape. If you inherit a big legacy database, you often don't have that luxury. Besides, if you design your database with Middlegen in mind, you have the possibility to make it look good in both object and relational form. > way your ejb-structure is not constrained by the expressive > power of db-schema�s. For instance inheritance would be > difficult I guess. If you're talking about EJB, inheritance isn't difficult. It's impossible. EJB doesn't support inheritance. You might be interested in UML2EJB. It is similar to Middlegen, but it reads XMI (UML) and spits out XDoclet @nnotated beans. http://uml2ejb.sourceforge.net/ Aslak ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ middlegen-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/middlegen-user
