For me I would love to see Magritte extended to support
pair or
collection of elementary data.
Stef
On May 11, 2011, at 12:39 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> Hi guys. Thanks to the ESUG SummerTalk, DBXTalk team has started to work
> with the new products of the DBXTalk suite. However, for one of the tools in
> special we would like to hear your opinion. Just a little introduction to the
> two other tools:
>
> 1) A new Glorp port from VW to Pharo. In addition, we provide the DBX driver
> for Glorp, by the name of GlorpDBX. Guillermo Polito is mostly working on
> this.
> 2) A new tool that uses Magritte and the database metadata to automatically
> generate the mappings between objects and tables. The idea is to do it
> two-way:
> a) read the metadata from an existing database -> create magritte
> descriptions -> generate Glorp mappings -> query with Glorp
> b) write magritte descriptions for the mappings -> generate database schema
> -> generate Glorp mappings -> query with Glorp
> or something like that....it is not completely decided but that's the idea.
> This way we can autogenerate the Glorp mappings and then use Glorp normally.
> Santiago Bragagnolo is working mostly on this.
>
> The third product, and here the question, is going to be a UI for the DBXTalk
> suite. This UI would do the core functionalities of tools like SQLDeveloper,
> MySQL Explorer, pgAdmin, etc. This is basically:
> - visualize and get information of: tables, views, schemas, relations,
> indexes, etc.
> - be able to modify the previous items and impact them in the database
> - write queries and get results
>
> So...why this tool if we can also use external tools like SQLDeveloper, MySQL
> Explorer, pgAdmin, etc ? a couple of reasons:
> 1) having the tool inside the image is easier (just the same way you
> sometimes install an Eclipse plugin instead of using such programs)
> 2) the same tool works for all databases
> 3) we can customize it with particular things of DBX
> Gisela Decuzzi is working mostly on this.
>
> Now....what use cases do you think are useful for such UI ? what kind of
> things would you like ? what things we can do that are related to Glorp and
> to the magritte tool?
> what things can we do to have even more advantages than just using external
> programs ? I have the following things in mind:
>
> - Special console for DBX/Glorp logs.
> - Be able to edit Magritte description for mappings.
> - Sync the tables and mapping while edditing.
> - A new inspector for inspecting restultsets, where you see one rows and
> columns.
>
> Let us know.
>
> Once again, thanks ESUG for the sponsorship to the team.
>
>
> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>
