Just thought I'd pitch in a couple pennies...although it's not OSS,
Visual Paradigm does have a nice community version available. It's
pretty spiffy. (No, I don't work for them...I've been looking for a good
free UML tool for _years_, and finally found this one.)

Sorry again for the product plug. :)

http://www.visualparadigm.com

-john

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 12:41, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 12:22, Alex Karasulu wrote:
> > Jason,
> > 
> > > From: Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Date: 2004/01/12 Mon AM 10:42:21 EST
> > > To: Maven Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: Re: Oracle SQL Schema Script for Maven XSD
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 02:59, Alex Karasulu wrote:
> > > > Jason,
> > > Cool, I'll keep that but have you worked with Axion? I figured for
> > > testing purposes it might be easier as it is easily embeddable for
> > 
> > No I actually never considered it but now that Axion is comming 
> > here to Apache that would be a smart move.
> > 
> > > > I need to add some foreign key constraints but for the
> > > > time being I have left it bare - I'll get to it later.
> > > > Just thought I'd get this to you if you want to experiment
> > > > with OJB.  
> > > 
> > > Yah, using OJB I never use foreign keys directly in the DDL. I let the
> > > application take care of managing the integrity of relationships among
> > > entities anyway. FKs used directly in DDL are always a big fat pain in
> > > the ass.
> > 
> > No doubt FKs have made me pull hair out several times especial with 
> > data imports and migrations.  I usually just let apps manage integrity
> > now however for those that want them it does not hurt to have a script
> > out there for the sake of completness.
> 
> Definitely, even commons-sql would allow you to make an XML descriptor
> and it will generate the DDL for the target database. Ultimately it
> would be nice to have UML for the model and from there generate the
> commons-sql descriptor but I have refrained from going overboard with
> the abstractions. And unfortunately most of the OSS UML tools just
> aren't very good.
> 
> But commons-sql will definitely allow you to generat the target DDL from
> one common source if you do actually want to try different databases.
> 
> > Alex
> > 
> > 
> > 
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