MDA is not a simple subject. Learning new tools is never easy either. Having said that, I don't consider AndroMDA the equivalent to DNA manipulation research or even rocket science for that matter. It's just not that hard. What you are finding difficult, is the Maven setup. The AndroMDA part is dirt simple. You can run AndroMDA with Ant if you find it easier.
See my comments below On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 14:14 -0500, Sebastien Arbogast wrote: > Yeah but the problem is that AndroMDA is far from the only technology > I have to integrate on this project. It depends on many constraints > and I don't really have time to learn by trial-and-error on this. I > mean I find it a little disturbing that AndroMDA needs so many > assumptions to work the first time. Of course you can configure There are no assumptions. Every dependency is spelled out explicitly in the maven project files. > everything, but to do that you have to understand every apect and as > documentation is quite rare on the subject, it's not very easy. > Personnaly I only need to use AndroMDA to generate Hibernate and Java > files from my model, so that I can integrate them with the > presentation framework I'm using (Apache Cocoon). No need of EJB, My application is setup as a Maven/AndroMDA WAR-only project. It took me a couple of hours to set this up from scratch. One maven.xml, one project.xml and a project.properties file - nice and simple. > JBoss (I use Tomcat as a web server), not even datasource > configuration because this is managed through Cocoon connection > pooling with HSQL-DB database. I think you have to setup a datasource with the way AndroMDA generates the hibernate code. DataSources are the standard setup for J2EE and you can set one up in Tomcat using the administration UI in about 30 seconds. > Can anyone help me to build a configuration with a bottom-to-top > approach rather than snapping configuration generated automatically by > andromdapp plugin ? It's a work in process and a FREE one a that. > > Thx in advance > > On 4/15/05, Tim Dysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sebastian, > > > > I used the default andromdapp:generate setup until I got used to the > > MagicDraw and AndroMDA combo. Then, I slowely pulled out the stuff I > > needed from the maven.xml and project.xml files that I needed a created > > a simpler, war-only setup for myself. If you need help or an example > > contact me offline and I'll send you some samples. > > > > -Tim ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Andromda-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user
