I expect you could probably get MagicUML to do what you want... it's pretty
flexible and extendable.

Maybe even Visio would do it :)

I expect there must even be an Eclipse plugin out there too.

Isn't the point of an ORM framework - and Doctrine - that you model your
objects (and their relationships), and generate a database schema from
those? So, you don't want a database modelling tool, you want a UML tool
that will export to a Doctrine compatible format, correct?

There's probably a bunch of tools in Java-land that could be adapted -
anything that works with Hibernate, AndroMDA etc

There's a list of UML tools here :
http://galaxy.andromda.org/docs/case-tools.html

Happy hunting - but remember, if you don't find what you want - necessity is
the mother of invention :)

Lee Bolding

w: http://www.leesbian.net

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of awe
Sent: 29 January 2008 04:31
To: symfony users
Subject: [symfony-users] Re: Visual modeling tools for Doctrine?


Thank you for your answer.

If you're referring to this Dia:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
than it's seemingly a drawing tool and not a visual database modeling
tool.

A visual modeling tool should (basically) support defining the
entities, their contents, their relationships, their constraints and
so on in an easy to view and maintain way. PowerDesigner is a nice
tool for that although probably too bloated and too pricey (~7,000$
per seat!) for my relatively basic data design needs. I've been
checking some open source tools such as Azzurri Clay, DBDesigner4,
MySQL Workbench & Power*Architect but haven't found one that is more
useful than a burden for my desired Symfony+Doctrine configuration.


On Jan 29, 5:17 am, "Jonathan Wage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been poking around in this area lately, although I was looking for
> something a little bit different.
> I want to generate a UML diagram for a set of models as a simple image so
> you can easily inspect the full view of all your models.
>
> What you are wanting would be very easy to accomplish with Dia. I know
that
> you can write things for Dia to generate the diagram information in any
> format that you specify, xml, yml, etc.
>
> I don't know of anything prepackaged that already exists, but it
> is definitely possible with the technology out there.
>
> - Jon
>
> On Jan 28, 2008 8:32 PM, awe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Which (if any) visual database modeling tools do you use? Do they
> > allow you to create a Doctrine schema directly?
>
> > This is a re-post of:
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/doctrine-user/browse_thread/thread/143...
> > due to lack of answers.
>
> > Thanks
>
> --
> Jonathan Wagehttp://www.jwage.comhttp://www.centresource.com



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