There are some perfect (not very perfect :) web-based process modelers now, for example:
http://bpt.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/Oryx http://bxmodeller.eng.it/ Not sure whether they are useful to draw a database diagram. Shi Jinghai/Beijing Langhua Ltd. 在 2010-02-07日的 15:31 -0600，David E Jones写道： > If people are interested in making diagrams there is some stuff build into > OFBiz to export "eomodeld" files. That particular file format can be imported > by a few tools, but mostly on the Mac (my preferred tool being OmniGraffle). > Unfortunately the weeks I put into that code, organizing the entities into > groups, and then creating and organizing diagrams for the groups, was done > while I was part of Hotwax Media so I don't actually have any rights to the > diagrams any more, and I'm not sure what the situation is with them (a Hotwax > rep would have to answer that I guess). > > I've thought about doing a new export and creating a new set of diagrams, but > the amount of work required to layout all of the diagrams again is well > beyond what this is worth to me... :) > > It would be great to see another pass at this be done fully open so that > various people could participate and share the load. To do so would require > agreeing on some file formats at least, and possibly tools as well (which > makes it difficult, at best). The eomodeld files that OFBiz exports are NOT > diagram files, but can be imported into a diagramming tool. From there a > diagram file can be exported and maintained going forward. > > BTW, for new and changed entities it is probably more work to redo the export > and layout than it is to modify the diagram files, so creating the diagram > file from the eomodeld files probably only needs to be done once. The output > formats that I can do easily with OmniGraffle include: Visio XML, PICT > Vector, SVG, EPS Vector, PDF Vector, and various rendered pixel/bit-map > formats that are probably not of much use. BTW, just to note Visio XML is > only supported by a limited number of tools and is not the same as the Visio > binary files. The alternative would be to write some other export code to > write the model in a different format. > > On a side note, there is some stuff to write eomodeld files for services as > well (with ECAs joining the services together). > > -David > > > On Feb 7, 2010, at 2:35 PM, bsreekanth wrote: > > > Adrian, > > thanks for the feedback. the graph is generated from the database tables, > > and may have to look at how to do the same from xml schema definitions. the > > easiest to do would be explaining the sql and ofbiz data types, and how they > > maps. I can point to the configuration where it also shows how it differ for > > different databasses. > > thanks, > > babu > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://n4.nabble.com/Key-data-model-relationship-pages-in-Wiki-tp1472177p1472302.html > > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
