On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Andrey Razumovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > --- ROP: unify client- and server classes. i really want to see classes that > can work both on client and server someday.
I've never used ROP, but a lot of us here are starting to look into AJAX for use in our applications and I'm wondering if some kind of AJAX/JSON support via ROP would be useful. > GUI support: > > --- Create Eclipse plugin for Cayenne. > This is a very large task, somewhat discussed at > http://cayenne.markmail.org/search/?q=eclipse+vs+swing#query:eclipse%20vs%20swing+page:1+mid:3laascxup2afjux5+state:results. > > Noone disputes the need of such plugin in general, but we need a leader to > start the project. Personally, I can't do that because of serious lack of > knowledge in SWT. I'm one of those not convinced that making an Eclipse plug-in is the best course. To me there is very little advantage to doing so, but that's just my opinion. > No matter whether we succeed in creation of plugin or stay with existing > modeler, following points must be improved from our current state: > --- Add some graphical modeling editor for ER and Class diagrams (CAY-762). > Maybe be able to import some existing formats. Generating diagrams has never been high on my list, but I know some love it. I'm just not sure the path that should be taken to do so. > --- Stop using HSQL internally in modeling (e.g. switch to JDK preferences). > It is slow and buggy. Yes! :-) > --- Make GUI tool it more user-friendly (many JIRAs for that, also was a > thread recently, can't find it now). we really can improve user interface > (remove extra clicks, change button positioning etc) and design. That was probably the thread I started ... especially the 8/20/2009 12:55pm one: http://markmail.org/thread/aonhtfa7x3mrez4i
