[lug] Database design tools?

[Michael Wegener]

Oh, so you're using OR mapping -- that's a different ball game. Is the issue
that the PHB needs a pretty picture? Why not use TogetherJ or something like
it for an object diagram where you can see all the dependencies? Together
whatever-its-called-now has a great fundamental design in which everything
is derived from the java code. There's a free version too, which does the
plain object diagrams

--M

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From: lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us
[mailto:lug-bounces at lug.boulder.co.us]On Behalf Of Bear Giles
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:03 PM
To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [lug] Database design tools?


Michael Wegener wrote:
> At the risk of provoking the wrath of this list, I have often used M$
Access
> GUI design to hack tables and dependencies, then exported to text to make
> real SQL DDL.

That's why I tried to downplay this issue a bit - our primary
document is and will remain the java source.  We really don't care
how our object persistence tool maps objects to the underlying
datastore as long as it does the job.

Fortunately hibernate is pretty intuitive with how it does the
mapping and xdoclet allows us to specify sqlish names so the
standard database tools will still make sense... but everything
has to be driven by the Java source.

Bear

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