I keep forgetting about that 'confidentiality notice' bollocks that my company 
insist on attaching
to all emails - I apologise for filling the list with crap.

Gareth Moorst

--- Gareth Moorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I vote for being able to generate classes based on arbitrary queries.
> I got half way through writing a code generator that did that, but you did a 
> better job with
> Abator - add the query parsing to it and It'll be almost perfect.
>  
> Another thing I'd like to see is a way to customise whatever templates are 
> used to generate the
> files, and customisation of the package that the generated classes/files go 
> into - I tend to
> keep my beans and daos in separate subpackages.
>  
> Gareth Moorst
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday 22 December 2005 05:45
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ABATOR] Future Plans
> 
> 
> Thanks for the kind words.
>  
> I'm hesitant to do the DDL thing because it would mean that Abator would have 
> to parse the DDL
> and that is very difficult given that there are so many different database 
> dialects out there. 
> If we went this route, we'd probably need to come up with an Abator DDL 
> syntax, rather than
> relying on any vendor's syntax.  Then we'd probably want a translator to 
> translate the Abator
> syntax into a specific database dialect, and then before you know it you're 
> back in the realm of
> top down CMP entity beans (shudder).  So I think that is probably beyond the 
> scope of the tool. 
>  
> But I do like another idea that's emerging on this thread - using Abator to 
> generate classes and
> methods given arbitrary queries.  That should be pretty simple to accomplish.
>  
> Jeff Butler
> 
>  
> On 12/21/05, Minjae Kim < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
> Thanks Jeff for making this terrific Eclipse plugin.
> I am thinking the application of this tool to a kind of DB2 CRUD system.
>  
> I have  2 things to ask of you.
>  
> Is there a way to use DDL file to add table information to Abator 
> configuration file instead of
> 'table' tag?
>  
> Another thing is I can't read 
> http://ibatis.apache.org/dtd/abator-config_1_0.dtd file. I got
> just the following message.
>  
> 
> The XML page cannot be displayed 
> 
> 
> Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then 
> click the Refresh
> button, or try again later. 
> 
>   _____  
> 
> 
> Cannot have a DTD declaration outside of a DTD. Error processing resource '
> http://ibatis.apache.org/dtd/abator-config_1_0.d. 
> <http://ibatis.apache.org/dtd/abator-config_1_0.d.> ..
> 
> <!ENTITY % Boolean "(true|false)">
> 
> -----------^
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Minjae Kim
> 
> 
> 



                
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