Hi Prashant,
Note that Cayenne user support is done via the mailing list, as it
allows us to better share the community knowledge. I am ccy'ing the
question to the list. Please feel free to continue this discussion on
the list:
http://cayenne.apache.org/mailing-lists.html
On Mar 23, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Prashant J wrote:
Hi Andrew,
It's Andrus, not Andrew :-)
I am new to Cayenne. I am researching various OR mapping layers and
have been pretty impressed with the design and ease of use of
Cayenne. My question to you is, is it possible to store the
ORMappings in the database and load it into Cayenne? In other
words, can I write my own Configuration to load the the meta data
from another source rather than from the XML file structure? If so,
please tell me how. If not, please tell me what the philosophy is.
Yes you can - this is just XML. Here is one possible scenario that
uses Cayenne to bootstrap Cayenne:
* Create a separate Cayenne project to map you "bootstrap" tables
that store the Cayenne metadata.
* Create your own Configuration subclass that internally instantiates
a temporary throwaway Configuration just to read the metadata.
Feel free to ask if you get stuck with the API.
Cheers,
Andrus
