You may be able to just extend org.exolab.castor.tools.MappingTool
It already uses reflection to automatically create a basic Mapping file.
You just need to add the default <sql> tags with table names.
--Keith
> Daniel Shriver wrote:
>
> Ok,
> I've been looking around at what's available for "improved data
> serialization" and the toolsets with robust communities (Castor,
> Hibernate, OJB) all seem to have this "mapping issue" (one needs to
> write/update mapping files in lockstep with coding).
>
> As previously mentioned I want to try and develop a general
> "auto-mapper" but (as mentioned on this forum) the problem is rather
> ugly. I am curious if there are people interested in spawning off a
> new open-source project on this (I'll be working on one myself, and
> hopefully I'll get permission to make the code open source).
> Currently I'm thinking of using Java's Reflection API to figure out
> the necessary fields to save/load...
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