Hi Ricardo,
Because of this probably the toolsets generators/templates would be the best place for me to begin.
They are locatated in the hibernateext module under the tools directory.
Anyway I find the following quite interesting:
- building hbmlint (a validator that checks if a hibernate configuration matches the database)
This one is described here: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-95
- building datagen (a tool for easy generation of testdata based on a hibernate configuration)
Not begun or described yet, but in short words:
Hibernate mapping contains alot of information that can be used to generate test data with simulated content while obeying the constraints of the db.
By using the mappings + some info on what kind of data that is in the fields and their constraints
you can automatically sample/generate a good test bed. Add some good sampling methods and
stochastic calculations to provide some user controlled variations to the data and their assocations
and we will have something that could be very usefull for junitesting, loadtesting and mere fun ,)
I've added this as an jira at http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-215
- building/adding/improving the toolsets generators/templates (like providing a DataDictionary, class diagram generation etc.)
Our generator is simply handled a Hibernate Configuration and from that we today can generate:
- pojo code (with or without generics and/or ejb3 annotations)
- hbm.xml (used for our rev.eng. to output the reverse engineerd mappings)
- hibernate.cfg.xml
This can be extended via code and/or velocity templates and some of the ideas I/we have are:
Generate a data dictionary of the catalog/schema/table/columnsforeignkey with info on what they are used etc.
(I'm imaging something like a javadoc layout, but just for a db with catalog/schema as "packages", table as "classes" and columns/foreignkey as "fields/methods")
Generate ER/Classdiagrams in to some already existing fileformat for a graph tool (like http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GraphViz) (these could even be integrated into the datadictionary from above)
Generate DAO's (i think Gavin is working on this)
<put your own wish here>
...and then the existing templates/code can also be improved - especially the EJB3 stuff which only handles the basic cases at the moment.
You tell me which project needs more help and please give me more information about the pending tasks.
All of the above ,)
Pick one that fits what you like and fits your existing knowledge of hibernate....
/max
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