On Tuesday, May 1, 2001, at 09:31 PM, Nick Afshartous wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Several months ago on the struts-user list there was a discussion on
> automatically deriving Java classes from a datamodel and creating
> beans to be used in forms. See:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01589.html
>
> In the interim we have done some prototyping work to define a datamodel in
> XML and XSLT stylesheets to generate Java code.
have you looked at texen (see http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/texen)?
for source generation from xml, velocity is *much* better than XSLT
stylesheets.
turbine has been using this approach to generate the kind of stuff that
you're proposing for quite some time now (see
http://jakarta.apache.org/turbine/howto/torque-howto.html).
- robert
