Re: Diagramming/documenting: how should we do that?

From: Aristedes Maniatis (ar..sh.com.au)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2006 - 05:11:16 EDT

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    On 25/09/2006, at 3:15 PM, Eric Lazarus wrote:

    > I want to be able to document the object model and the
    > relational model in an attractive and clear way. We
    > are building them both in the modeler. What should we
    > do to be able to create something that can be used to
    > document our work in a useful way? I'm envisioning an
    > ER diagram with attributes or something. Is there a
    > tool that will walk though the schema or something and
    > draw this for me or with me?

    The new UML diagram tools in Netbeans 5.5 are looking really
    interesting. I am starting to use it on our project. It allows two
    way integration from diagram to code and back again.

    http://www.netbeans.org/products/enterprise/index.html

    I know this isn't the complete solution for what you want because it
    doesn't show database relationships between schema entities and I
    haven't yet figured out how to do this either. But I'm hoping that it
    might be extensible in some way.

    You could always use EOModeler on a Mac to do what you want. It draws
    nice diagrams. Just a shame it is 1) going away, 2) doesn't open
    Cayenne XML models.

    Ari Maniatis

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