Mike Schrag wrote:
> I looked at Cayenne Modeler when I started EM ... It's REALLLLY close to
> EOModels, but not quite, and I just decided that I could make a much
> better app that really knows EOF than to try and shoehorn another ORM
> model into a different editor. However, it it works for you, that's great!
Wasn't there talk about a standalone Entity Modeler once?
Sometimes tools and techniques developed for very specific purposes turn
out to be useful in a more general context.
> On Jan 15, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Anjo Krank wrote:
>
>> Yeah well.. so use one of the trillion other tools that do this. I'd
>> prefer to have EM model EOs perfectly and if the rest work, fine, but
>> if not, tough luck.
I've looked at some of the other tools. Most of them require that I
install Hibernate, Dali and/or WTP... I don't want to complicate my
system or eclipse installations too much and I already have Entity
Modeler installed.
>> There are only so many hours in the day, and it can only hurt of the
>> focus of the tool got lost in a maze of "uh, it would be nice to have".
>>
>> And frankly, I have yet to see *one* commit on EM that wasn't Mike's
>> (apart from the odd one-line NPE fix).
>>
>> So I suggest you stop imagining and start working on it :)
>>
>> Cheers, Anjo
We'll see where I end up,
/Anders
>> Am 15.01.2008 um 22:59 schrieb Anders Peterson:
>>
>>> Anjo Krank wrote:
>>>> Just what are you talking about?
>>>> Cheers, Anjo
>>>> Am 15.01.2008 um 21:54 schrieb Anders Peterson:
>>>>> A tool named Entity Modeler must be awfully generic. With the right
>>>>> eogenerator (or whatever you're using) template you should be able
>>>>> to model and generate anything.
>>>
>>> I imagine one could use Entity Modeler regardless of which ORM
>>> framework is used - just by modifying the generator templates.
>>> Doesn't even have to to be Java classes. You can of course only model
>>> structures that EOF can handle/describe. Possibly some features of
>>> some specific ORM framework can not be modeled.
>>>
>>> I'm currently working on a small prototype application that is not
>>> using EOF/WO, but I plan to use Entity Modeler to develop the
>>> database and business object model, and make scripts that generate
>>> Java classes as I need them.
>>>
>>> /Anders
>>> --
>>> http://ojalgo.org/
>>>
>>> Mathematics, Linear Algebra and Optimisation with Java
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