Re: CayenneModeler and Reengineering Database Schema

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Lepine
Thanks for the reply, Michael. Until the next milestone release of Cayenne (as mentioned by Tore), I'll use the manual process I outlined. As far as a good comparison tool for Windows, I use Beyond Compare, http://www.scootersoftware.com/. It's not open source but it's free to try and a license is

Re: CayenneModeler and Reengineering Database Schema

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Lepine
This sounds like an excellent new feature. Thank you. I look forward to checking it out. On Nov 27, 2007 8:54 AM, Tore Halset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > Currently (next milestone), you mark the datamap in the modeler and > select "Tools->Migrate Database Schema". After connecting to

Re: CayenneModeler and Reengineering Database Schema

2007-11-27 Thread Tore Halset
Hello. Currently (next milestone), you mark the datamap in the modeler and select "Tools->Migrate Database Schema". After connecting to a database, a new dialog will pop up and show the (supported) changes between the model and the database. For each diff, you can choose to ignore, merge

Re: CayenneModeler and Reengineering Database Schema

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Lepine
Very interesting. This sounds like what I'm looking for. Is there a link that contains a little more information on how this will work, or if you have a minute, would you give a brief synopsis of how this will be supported by the Modeler? On Nov 27, 2007 8:26 AM, Tore Halset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: CayenneModeler and Reengineering Database Schema

2007-11-27 Thread Tore Halset
Hello. I think this is handled by the merge-stuff I have worked on. It will be included in the next 3.0 milestone. https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-885 Regards, - Tore. On Nov 26, 2007, at 23:06 , Michael Lepine wrote: Hello all. I am currently using CayenneModeler version 2

Re: CayenneModeler and Reengineering Database Schema

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Gentry
Hi Michael, This question seems to pop up ever 3 months or so. There currently is not a good way, inside the modeler, to re-reengineer the database schema. It is a fairly difficult problem and we just haven't looked into it enough yet. People have different techniques of handling this. I perso

CayenneModeler and Reengineering Database Schema

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Lepine
Hello all. I am currently using CayenneModeler version 2.0.3 to reengineer a database schema and generate the subsequent Java classes. Some of the ObjEntity instances have primary/foreign keys mapped manually because these keys are generated by another process (outside of the Cayenne framework). T