You guys are doing some fabulous and much needed work! Cheers r
On 26 December 2011 18:46, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi! > > I'm glad to announce the beta version of Phoseydon, one of the new dbxtalk > tools developed as part of the summer of talk project, supported by ESUG. > > So, > > *What is Phoseydon?* > It is a tool aimed to model and create applications easily, as Ruby does > with Rails or python with Django. You describe a model, and from that > model a relational database + an object model + an ORM mapping are fed from > that model. > > *What does Phoseydon beta includes?* > By now, it reads a database schema, builds a model description from it and > then allows us to: > - write classes from that description. > - serialize that description as Magritte descriptions on the created > classes. > - build a Glorp mapping from that description. > > Glorp descriptions right now support Simple mappings (Strings, numbers, > booleans..), OneToOne relationships, and ManyToOne relationships. > > *What does it do in the background?* > It tries to explode Magritte benefits to create apps. The model's > description is just a magritte descrition, so our class writer, magritte > serializer and Glorp mapping builder use magritte visitors to consume that > information. > This allows people to build i.e. SOAP web services from these same > magritte descriptions. > > *Where is the documentation? > *Download info from: http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Download > First Phoseydon doc: > http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Documentation/creating-your-first-dbx-application-with-phoseydon > > *What is to come?* > - Editing your model descriptions in runtime > - Create your model descriptions without a database > - More easy Glorp mappings support :) (like embedding objects, inheritance > and more collections kinds) > > Please, feel free to provide feedback, critics and suggestions :). You'll > find the project's issue tracker and mailing list @ > http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Support > > Cheers, > The DBXTalk Team >
