BTW, last week a colleague pointed me to LiquiBase, which appears to be a maturing database migration framework (LGPL, though): http://www.liquibase.org/
An old InfoQ article discusses LiquiBase, and there is a link to another Apache-licensed framework called Scriptella: http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/05/liquibase-database-refactoring http://scriptella.javaforge.com/ Ken On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm ready to toss out data-management calling it "it seemed like a good > idea > > at the time" and use standard database backup techniques and SQL based > > migrations. I think Emmanuel has suggested tools in the past. > > > > The way Rails does it is ideal - surely someone has knocked that up in > Java > > already? :) I'm pretty sure I also saw something in the OpenJPA > > documentation too, though haven't had a chance to investigate. Perhaps > Ken > > could comment on this? > > Yes, a couple of tools were suggested in the other thread [1]. > > Do you think that would eliminate the need to version the configuration > file? > > [1] > http://www.nabble.com/Versioning-the-Continuum-database-td18822595.html#a18822595 > > -- > Wendy >
