You may be interested in the "Modifying projects in Java" thread of last
july.
Le mardi 25 septembre 2007 à 19:57 -0400, Chris Farnham a écrit :
> I've been using Cayenne on two different projects for a couple of months
> now and am very happy with it.
>
> One thing that I don't like is the reliance upon a graphical composer
> rather than a well documented and defined descriptor file. I know that
> the Cayenne community views the GUI tool as an important differentiator
> from other ORM frameworks. But not everyone likes to work with GUI
> tools. Perhaps it's my Unix roots.
>
> I prefer working directly with Cayenne's XML descriptor. I wish that
> the schema was documented beyond just a DTD and snippets that people
> pass around on this list. I also get frustrated when I find
> documentation which explains how to control caching or custom queries
> and all it has are step-by-step screenshots of the GUI tool.
>
> I know that the GUI tool is part of the Cayenne philosophy and I am wary
> of starting a flame-war (perhaps this discussion was happened on this
> list in times past and I haven't seen it).
>
> Do other people feel the same way I do?
> If so, can Cayenne better support both modes of use?
>
> I would like to see documentation and examples that are XML descriptor
> centric as well as GUI centric.
>
> I also think that it'd be an interesting project to look at the current
> XML syntax and make it a little more user/text-editor friendly. I have
> no concrete ideas on this latter point but I've been playing around with
> DSLs in other areas and it might be neat to either streamline Cayenne's
> XML syntax or create a DSL. Either of these could be transformed into
> the current XML syntax.
>
> I only raise this issue because I've enjoyed using Cayenne and would
> like to see it improve.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Farnham
>
> cfarnha..ra.com
>
>
>
>
> THIS MESSAGE IS INTENDED FOR THE USE OF THE PERSON TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED. IT MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT IS PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. If you are not the intended recipient, your use of this message for any purpose is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please delete the message and notify the sender so that we may correct our records.
-- Mikaël Cluseau <mc.isi.n..mail.com> ISI.NC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0.0 : Tue Sep 25 2007 - 20:38:40 EDT