Andrus Adamchik <andru..bjectstyle.org> wrote:
> Agreed. Interesting that a few people suggested to use a UML based
> approach to modeling persistent objects with "export" function for all
> possible O/R frameworks. This discussion happened a few times on this
> list. E.g.:
Unfortunately, I'm not very knowledgeable about UML, but I did read the
comments.
UML looks like EOModeler's Diagram view, from what little I saw. My
theoretical database background was primarily one semester of a college
database class, mostly normalization.
> > I've been able to create templates to export EOModels into (now
> > Oracle's) Toplink,
>
> I would love to see TopLink export and (especially) import functions in
> the Modeler. Never started it myself, since I was always scared of the
> TopLink XML jungle :-) (lots of class metadata, CVS unfriendly
> meaningless XML index files, etc...)
You can save your toplink model either to XML or to java classes.
I took the easy way out and just created Toplink-compatible java classes.
> Umm... marketing is not our strong side :-(. We have an open position
> for a fulltime unpaid marketing director ;-). Seriously, I was thinking
> about doing some real promotion, like writing articles, doing
I think that just making sure you're up-to-date in the popular
database-layer comparison resources and perhaps dropping a note in the
WO-dev or WOProject mailing lists that the Modeler exists and could be
extended to export EOModels could be effective, low-effort marketing.
> > http://www.uq.net.au/~zzabergl/simpleorm/ORMTools.html
>
> I am not very happy with the reviews on this site. They are very high
> level. The author hasn't evaluated most of the frameworks himself, just
> got some info from the websites. I sent a few corrections about Cayenne
> and WebObjects, that were accepted (I can see you did the same thing).
> Well, it says it is work in progress, but still.... Wiki is better in
> this respect.
It does provide a nice overview of the technology, though, and he does
accept corrections.
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