Sorry for a somewhat OT post.
There's this fairly new Cayenne-based project called LinkETL [1]. It is a
model-driven dynamically-configurable framework to acquire data from external
sources and save it in your database. The original scenario for LinkETL was to
handle data integration between a large number of smaller DB schemas
("application databases" [2]). This worked really well, allowing us to create
precise and easy to understand DB models for various aspects of an enterprise,
and yet let them work together, without blocking the evolution of individual
schemas.
This is not the only scenario of course. This can be used as a more powerful
replacement of the good old Cayenne DataPort task. Or really for any task that
requires to pump data from an external data source to a DB that you control.
Now we realized that "ETL" in the name is wrong, as it has data warehouse
connotations. So looking for another name for this project. All the most
obvious names (e.g. 'datapump") are already taken by various commercial and
open source projects. So I figured we may croudsource the name selection :) So
asking the community for the naming ideas...
Cheers,
Andrus
[1] https://github.com/nhl/link-etl
[2] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ApplicationDatabase.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
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Andrus Adamchik
Apache Cayenne ORM: http://cayenne.apache.org/
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