Thanks everybody for the ideas here and sent to me offline. Here is a list of
the suggestions in no particular order:
* ETL is a proper term here, so this shouldn't be the reason for renaming
* CTP - copy-transform-paste (which coincidentally evoked an analogy with the
tedious process of copying XML descriptors in the initial versions of the
framework. No longer the case at present)
* LinkSmith
* LinkRouter
* LinkShip
* LinkLoad
* LinkMove
* LinkSrc
* LinkSources
* LinkDB
* LinkER
* LinkRel
While I am almost persuaded that we didn't misuse "ETL" term after all, I
actually like "LinkMove". It is generic enough, while still containing a vague
reference to the data flow nature of the framework (and of course it is a pun
on LinkRest). I think we are going to use that.
We are going to start publishing the framework on Maven Central at some point
soon using the new name.
Thanks again!
Andrus
> On Jun 11, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote:
>
> Sorry for a somewhat OT post.
>
> There's this fairly new Cayenne-based project called LinkETL [1]. It is a
> model-driven dynamically-configurable framework to acquire data from external
> sources and save it in your database. The original scenario for LinkETL was
> to handle data integration between a large number of smaller DB schemas
> ("application databases" [2]). This worked really well, allowing us to create
> precise and easy to understand DB models for various aspects of an
> enterprise, and yet let them work together, without blocking the evolution of
> individual schemas.
>
> This is not the only scenario of course. This can be used as a more powerful
> replacement of the good old Cayenne DataPort task. Or really for any task
> that requires to pump data from an external data source to a DB that you
> control.
>
> Now we realized that "ETL" in the name is wrong, as it has data warehouse
> connotations. So looking for another name for this project. All the most
> obvious names (e.g. 'datapump") are already taken by various commercial and
> open source projects. So I figured we may croudsource the name selection :)
> So asking the community for the naming ideas...
>
> Cheers,
> Andrus
>
> [1] https://github.com/nhl/link-etl
> [2] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/ApplicationDatabase.html
> [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
>
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> Andrus Adamchik
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>
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