Ok, so are all the cool guys using Cayenne now then? I'm sure I should read some page about it rather than waste everyone’s time reiterating why it’s better and why we should be moving to that sort of thing etc.
> On Jun 26, 2020, at 3:10 PM, Hugi Thordarson via Webobjects-dev > <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: > > You might also want to take a look at Cayenne. It's well documented and we're > eager to help where the docs fall short. And most importantly; it's an active > and maintained project that didn't die over a decade ago :) > > - hugi > > > >> On 26 Jun 2020, at 19:04, Aaron Rosenzweig via Webobjects-dev >> <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Don, >> >> Have a look at EOEntity and friends: EOAttribute, EORelationship. >> >> You can build them out and setup the “external” name for the column, etc. I >> did it once as an exercise many moons ago. The only practical use I got out >> of it was sometimes sanity checking keyPaths to see if they hit things “in >> memory” or if they were completely traversable through EOEntity >> relationships. Something that trips an in-memory method call is not >> something you can use to build a complex SQL query. >> >> Like other people have said, the “reverse engineering” of the original WO >> tools is more likely what you want to use instead. You point Entity Modeler >> at a database and it can make a surprisingly good model file from it. >> Depending on how big the database is… it might be worth your trouble of >> firing up MacOS Tiger and installing the NeXTStep GUI tools to do the >> reverse engineering. I don’t think that the Eclipse java based EntityModeler >> can reverse engineer. I don’t know if Cayenne can reverse engineer. >> AARON ROSENZWEIG / Chat 'n Bike >> e: aa...@chatnbike.com t: (301) 956-2319 >> >> >>> On Jun 25, 2020, at 8:53 PM, Don Lindsay via Webobjects-dev >>> <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello; >>> >>> The Documentation for EOModel states that you can build one in code, but >>> there are no examples or further information that I can find. Does anyone >>> have any documentation or samples that they can direct me to so I can >>> create EOModels while the application is running: >>> >>> What I want to do is connect to a database that my app does not know about, >>> someone provides connection parameters and I create an EOModel and connect >>> to that database or rest and access it using the EOModel created using new >>> EOModel(). >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Don >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/aaron%40chatnbike.com >>> >>> This email sent to aa...@chatnbike.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/hugi%40karlmenn.is >> >> This email sent to h...@karlmenn.is > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/jtayler%40oeinc.com > > This email sent to jtay...@oeinc.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
