I wasn't a fan of the plugin until recently.  Where I work, the
Windows users can't download or install the Windows version, but
because the Maven repository is whitelisted in our proxy, the JARs
slip right through.  They seem to be pretty content running Cayenne
Modeler from within Eclipse through the Maven plugin.

mrg


On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not using the plugin myself, but I don't see why we shouldn't support a 
> default option.
>
> On May 17, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Robert Zeigler wrote:
>
>> True, and that's useful for, eg, non-standard naming, multi-domain projects, 
>> etc.
>> But it sensible defaults is always nice. :)
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> On May 17, 2012, at 5/172:54 PM , Michael Gentry wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> That would probably be a win, but you can also specify the model in
>>> the pom.xml, too:
>>>
>>> <configuration>
>>>     <modelFile>src/main/resources/cayenne.xml</modelFile>
>>> </configuration>
>>>
>>> Not as convenient, but quicker to get in place.
>>>
>>> mrg
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Robert Zeigler
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> It used to be that the modeler, when run via the cayenne-modeler:run 
>>>> plugin, would open up the default cayenne.xml file (sitting in 
>>>> src/main/resources).
>>>>
>>>> I get why that was removed in 3.1, because now the entire configuration 
>>>> system changed. But it still makes me sad because many project still only 
>>>> have a single project file. :)
>>>>
>>>> It seems like the default, in a project upgrade, is to rename cayenne.xml 
>>>> to something like cayenne-<datadomainname>.xml. Are there any objections 
>>>> to tweaking the maven modeler plugin to look for files like 
>>>> "^cayenne-.*\.xml$" in project-configured resource directories, and if it 
>>>> finds one (and only one) to open that by default?
>>>>
>>>> Robert
>>
>>
>

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