Stephen Haberman wrote: >>at the moment we have some generators in torque and ojb .. it would be > > good to > >>merge and extend >>them. so we will get an 'universial database generator' (udbg) > > > I just skimmed your email a few days ago, but after coming back to it, I > really like the idea. > > > A few minor comments: > > >>* all stuff from the generators in torque and ojb >>* generation of om/peer classes using ojb (to make migration easy for > > torque users) > > Are you insinuating that Torque as a project would disappear? (I'm not > saying I disagree with it, just clarifying)
no, i just want to make migration easy. the generator should also do the torque om/peer stuff, so people can choos between using torque or ojb > >>* generation of templates and java code for turbine >>* generation of ui code for swing apps (something like the autoform > > stuff in ms > >>access) > > > These two points would be really cool (especially the templates/java > code). > > >>* ability to use a database to store the descriptions (it should also > > work with xml files) > >>* a gui to edit create/edit the descriptions (the generator could > > generate it's own gui > >>;-) > > > This would be nice (the gui with a database backend), but I think > initially just editing an XML file is fine (we can discuss the details > when the db.apache.org thing comes around). it shouldn't be too hard to make the db stuff work .. for large projects where many developers work together it will be much easier to use a db as to work with xml files the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is up ;-) > > >>* maven plugin for all the generation stuff > > > I'd actually be against providing only a maven plugin. Unless we want to > force people to use Maven (which as nice as Maven is, we don't need to > force people on it). But again, we can discuss details in the future. not only a maven plugin!!! the maven plugin will be optional .. there will also be a build-file for ant martin > > - Stephen > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
