>From what I saw of MiddleGen it started with the database. I'm working on a new project and right now I'm designing our object model without even thinking about the database. What I'd really like is a tool that could generate the repository.xml file from my java objects. If it could also create the database schema that'd be great (but if not I could do it by hand I guess).
This is one part of EJB Entities I actually liked. I defined my entities and didn't even think about the database schema. Michael > -----Original Message----- > From: Ampie Barnard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:35 PM > To: OJB Users List > Subject: A mapping workbench > > > Just an idea... > > I recently started playing with Middlegen (available on SourceForge). Its > latest cvs version has a very well designed plugin architecture. It also > comes with a GUI for visual mapping of your plugin constructs (like JDO > classes) to tables and relationships. It was originally written > to generate > the tons of code required to make entity beans work, but it took > me exactly > 2 days to write a plugin that generates most of the elements of the > repository.xml. Currently Middlegen's mechanism is one-way: it just > generates java code/xml. > > Now here is the idea... Why not co-oporate with the Middlegen guys to > implement the future version of the OJB mapping tool? I know the OJB guys > have probably already written the code for ReverseDB, so maybe its a bad > idea. (I have not been able to assess ReverseDB, since I can't seem to get > it working on MySQL.) But I also do believe that this could be a mutually > beneficial relationship. > > Would love to hear your ideas on this. > > Ampie > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
