On 4-Apr-06, at 1:58 PM, Jeffrey Pearson wrote:
Thanks to all (David and Paul) for the resource suggestions. I ordered the books from Amazon...just a fyi: it was under $20 for both of them!!!!Also, I bought and have the videos. I have watched most of the first one. Quick question. This app I am creating uses existing data in an existing database. I was using straight java and jdbc to connect and try to read from those table. After viewing the video, it looks like I am going to be much happier if I copy off the tables, use EOModeler to actually create the tables in the db and then import the data. It looks like some invisible plumbing is set up by using EOModeler to generate the database tables.
I don't think you will need to do this.
I just want to verify I am on the right track so far.......so I guess to further explore that path, further down the line, if I want to connect to a database where the option of deleting the database and letting EOModeler create the tables and such does NOT exist, is this not going to be a happy happy experience for me?
In most cases, you should be able to just point EOModeler at your database (with the correct jdbc connection settings) and it will reverse engineer your database into a model for you. You can then clean it up to your liking.
There is no "invisible plumbing" that EOModeler does in the database. The only thing you're likely to get is an "eo_pk_table" for tracking the PKs that EOF manages (if your database doesn't have a plugin to handle that in a native fashion). It's function is very straight forward.
I'd suggest you read through the EOModeler guide before starting <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Webobjects/UsingEOModeler/ index.html>
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