Like this (but it's read only): http://ireport.sourceforge.net/images/screenshot6.gif It even has a wizzard from SQL. .V
James Higginbotham wrote:
Interesting.. How about taking this to the next level, which all struts generators have failed to do (except a BEA tool that requires you to buy into them):
1) Offer the ability to define the concept of a page, which has
associated to it the action and an JSP page
2) Define the fields that will be managed within the JSP page, including
the types of fields (text, textarea, drop down), datasources for drop
downs, and validation rules
3) Allow the user to define events that occur when the user submits the
page. This would include things like Save, Update, Delete, Create,
Cancel, Next, Previous, etc. 4) Allow the user to select a custom event handler or a default one such
as Cancel, which would have a wizard to allow the user to select the
page it flows to and do any logic like strip out session beans if the
action's form is session scoped
5) Optionally, you could extend the concept of the fields to allow them
to be mapped to datasources, by which I mean an EJB, JDBC Datasource,
etc. So, your tools allows for the definition of dataobjects, pages, and
fields that are all tied together using some configuration file and
optionally generated source.
Note that some of this could be done with a state diagramming tool
within the app, and some of it would be more event driven. What I'm
proposing is something that operates like VB or Visual Interdev, and
allows either rapid prototyping, rapid web tier integration, and rapid
business tier integration. Add in a little NetDynamics for spice, and
you have a really interesting tool that is beyond just "code
generation". I've been wanting to do this for several years but I've had
0 time to put into it. I've been hoping that someone else catches the
vision and can help me run with it, as I firmly believe this is what is
missing from J2EE and has rarely been filled in by code generators. My
guess is that Eclipse or some other IDE would allow for the GUI of this
tool to be built and integrated quickly, benefiting from the IDE's class
parsing rules, Add new source capabilities, and other Java semantics
that tend to slow tools down when they reach this point.
Thoughts? James
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Hopefully this works...
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how about zipping it up?
james logsdon wrote:
I was not able to attach my pdf file. The mail server
either said that
it was too big or it just did not attach it.
I created a group on yahoo and added the file there. It can be retrieved
by following the link:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quickStartCodeGenerator/files/
QuickStart
.doc
but if you do not have a yahoo id you will have to create
one. Sorry
for any inconvenience. James
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:51:58 -0600
From: "james logsdon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:47:47 -0600
Let me try one more time...
From: "james logsdon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Opinions on Struts code generator
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:06:16 -0600
Hello,
I have built a Struts code generator that converts HTML pages and a
state diagram into a Struts application. The HTML files
are input into
JTidy to create XHTML (as done in cocoon) and then several XSL transformations are done to create the various Struts
files. All of the
code generation is done with an Ant script which creates
war file from
the input files.
If enough people think this is useful I will donate to open source...
Would appreciate feedback on the utility of the approach
take, and if
their are ways to improve the generated code.
James
PS - Had to break document into two as there is a 100k document size
limit.
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