Hi all, i'm writing an application that try to be indipendent from the business logic required. The main idea behind this project is to use reflection to create on the fly the bean (CayenneDataObject) that normally i must write for map the databese structure. What i need is: 1) load cayenne data map xml from a URL. Basically this URL point to a servlet that generate it on the fly. Normally this is the configuration in cayenne.xml:
<map name="datamap-foo" location="META-INF/cayenne-datamap-foo.map.xml" /> whant i need is something like this: <map name="datamap-foo" location=" http://somedomain/cayenne-datamap-foo.map.xml"; /> is it possible? 2) i need to generate some DataObject on the fly. So i'm thinking to use Reflection. Do you think that is possible? The main idea is that at runtime i don't know the structure of my entity. For example, "user" can be composed only by "name" and "surname" attribute... or... have also "address".. and so on. I don't want to create every time the corresponding DataObject. I want to implements an engine that create them on demand. I don't know if this is a right approch on the problem. Maybe cayenne has some API for doing this type of activity. Thanks in advance, for help. D.
