Just like the Cayenne modeller can generate SQL code for schema
generation, how about changing the Cayenne modeller to provide the
option of generating Java code for schema generation/reverse engineering
of database?
Why you ask?
These are "atomic user operations" where many things can go wrong(these
are necessarily complex and messy tasks) and extending the Cayenne
modeler to provide a GUI which can cater for every contingency is ...
Obviously this is *possible* today, but having this feature built into
the Cayenne modeller would put the developer on the right path a bit
earlier and the Cayenne modeller is not about making something possible,
but making it efficient and convenient.
The Java debugger is the most powerful weapon in the universe, I suggest
we use it :-)
Obviously the Java code should be designed to be simple to debug without
reading up on Cayenne source first. This would probably mean nothing
more than to split out the steps, provide suitable local variables to
examin, so it is easy to see where things go wrong.
-- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com
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