You should checkout trails https://trails.dev.java.net/. It does a lot of what you're talking about but with Hibernate instead of Cayenne.
On 11/24/05, John Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am working on a project to create a Tapestry application generator. This > will be for lightweight applications, i.e. the typical web application not > requiring EJB and a application server, and all that heavy J2EE stuff. > > The idea is that a enterprise model is designed using a GUI tool. This > will define a set of entity object interfaces, services and persistence > layer. > > From these a set of Tapestry components will be generated; i.e. create > entity page, retrieve entity page, update entity page, etc... and then a > HiveMind service business class encapsulating the CRUD persistence and > anything else, and hooking into the persistence layer - I'm using Cayenne at > the moment. It will also wire up the services using a generated hivemodule. > Everything will be well decoupled and pluggable, lightweight, using the > minimum number of frameworks/technologies. > > I wonder if others are interested in this venture, people with > Tapestry/HiveMind/Cayenne and Velocity would be ideal. If so, it would be > nice to set up an open source project. > > If you know of anything simlar, please let me know. > > John >
