PROPOSAL: I think, providing a fast mapping among DTD/XML Schemas/DDBB/Java Objects/GUIs is (or will be), in my humble opinion one of the future challenges of current technology. In such a way, from a standard DTD, with the right tool, we could have the DDBB schema, Java Objects (e.g. JAXB) or GUIs (XUL?). Therefore future implementation would become more in a matter of knowing tools and configurate them rather than developing everything from scratch. Less code, more re-using and configuration. The "seed" could be for example an XML schema.
QUESTION: I am looking for a tool which allows me to, starting from a DTD (not database aware, i.e. not a DDL) to, automatically, make up the tables schema of a database to store the same info that the counterpart XML that the DTD describes could store. Does anyone knows such a tool? Is this technically possible? Has this meaning?
COROLARY: It could be interesting to have a list of tools for direct conversion among formats. E.g.:
- DTD/schemas XML -> Java Objects (with JAXB, Castor, Quick) (I think is called data binding)
- DDBB -> JavaObjects (with JDO, Castor, Hibernate, Cayenne...)
Could we make up a thread as a draft for a report considering tools for format conversions with the same source info? Contributions with tools are welcome.
Sorry if this question could looks like (or actually is) meaningless. Feedback, pointers and criticism are fully welcome.
Adolfo.
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