Berin Loritsch wrote:
> Are there any utilities to reverse engineer a database?  It would really
> be cool to use the JDBC metadata facilities to create the Torque
> descriptor from an existing database.

torque already has a task to do this for you :-)
project-jdbc in build-torque.xml

look at the testbed to see how it works

martin

> 
> I have an existing legacy database in Informix that has around 100
> tables,
> I would rather not do the busy work of manually creating the Torque
> descriptor.  Esp. since some of those tables have more than 20 columns!
> 
> I want to convert the database to a MySQL database--and the Torque
> project is the perfect way to do that.  Esp. since it takes care of a
> lot
> of busy work for me.
> 
> 
> "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
>  deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>                 - Benjamin Franklin
> 
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