Heck - I look forward to buying him drinks!
On Aug 5, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Watkins, Garry wrote:
>
> Thanks Mike for all of the outstanding work that you have done. I
> look
> forward to meeting you at WWDC.
>
> Garry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Schrag [mailto:mschra..dimension.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:25 PM
> To: woproject-de..bjectstyle.org
> Subject: Entity Modeler
>
> I'm calling the latest and greatest Entity Modeler "1.0 beta". It
> appears to be working on all the models I've been running it with.
> Here's the rundown on what it can do:
>
> * Read/Write EOModel bundles including EOModelGroup, EOModel,
> EOEntity,
> EOAttribute, EORelationship, EOJoin, EOFetchSpecification,
> EOQualifier,
> EOSortOrdering, EOStoredProcedure, EOArgument (i.e.
> EOAttribute on a stored procedure), and User Info
> * Editors for all of the above, a new EOModeler Perspective, and
> custom
> Outline support for all the EOModel elements
> * Cut/Copy/Paste support for all of the above
> * NSBundle-style discovery of EOModels that are "reachable" by your
> project for autoloading of EOModelGroups
> * Flattened relationships and attributes + UI (which includes a KVC
> implementation)
> * Prototypes, including support for writing models with missing/
> unresolved prototypes without destroying your model (and column name
> doesn't disappear when you change an attribute's prototype)
> * Model verifier that finds possible model errors (runs
> automatically at
> startup and save, but can be run on-demand by an action as well)
> * Inheritance "helper" that supports Horizontal, Vertical, and Single-
> Table
> * Changing the database in your connection dictionary's URL
> invalidates
> and reloads prototypes on-the-fly so that datatypes are properly
> reflected for the new prototypes
> * .eomodelgroup files (+ creation wizard) for overriding NSBundle
> model
> resolution (for defining custom model groups)
> * "Create EOGenerator File" action on .eomodeld that autogenerates an
> EOGenerator .eogen file by looking up all referenced EOModels
> * Auto-create .eogen files in EOModel creation wizard
> * Automatic execution of EOGenerator when models change
> * Diff-stable .eomodeld files by sorting appropriate plist
> and .eomodeld
> dictionaries and sets
> * SQL generation and execution that runs using your runtime plugins
> * Database Configurations (and UI to create them) on your EOModel.
> Allows the definition of multiple connection dictionaries (along with
> custom selection of the prototype to use). SQL Generation dialog
> allows
> you to choose which database config to generate with.
> * Per-project "delegates" for SQL generation -- If you declare a class
> named "org.objectstyle.wolips.eomodeler.EOModelProcessor" in your
> project with the API:
> public void processModel(EOModel _model, NSMutableArray
> _entities, NSMutableDictionary _flags);
> public void processSQL(StringBuffer _sqlBuffer, EOModel _model,
> NSMutableArray _entities, NSMutableDictionary _flags); you can
> intercept
> and modify the SQL generation process before and after the SQL
> string is
> created to provide customizations.
>
> ms
>
>
>
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