[carniz]

In short: I would love to be able to register/import custom made velocity templates for use in an (Hibernate) O/R editor.

ASCII art version of thought MyEclipse tool:

                                         [A: tool panel]
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 [B: list of tables]  |                                                                 | [C: property inspector]
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                      |                  [D: O/R view]                                  |
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                                          [E: template list]

Use case:

– you open the O/R perspective and define a DB connection/connect to a defined datasource
– selecting one table in view B will zoom in on the relevant tables+classes in view D.
– you edit the mapping properties in view C, for example: desired java data type for fields, desired collection type (set/bag/list/..) for collections, etc
– you click a checkbox for each named template you want to use with that table in view E
– finally, you click the “Generate..” button in view A to bring up a wizard where you define base packages etc for the classes to be generated, and finish the generation.

MyEclipse could provide a set of standard templates(hbm.xml template, POJO template, etc) to use with the O/R mapper, but you should also be able to import custom made tamplates and assign names to them (eg: “MyNiftyCRUDBean template”). All templates known to the tool would show up in the template view (E) so that you could choose what templates to use for a specific table, you may for example want to generate eg Session EJBs for some tables but not for all.

Don’t know what plans you have for an O/R editor, but I would very much like to see something like this in MyEclipse. I apologize for the lame ASCII art decription, but I hope you get the idea by looking at it.

Regards
– Mikael

[Riyad Kalla]

Damn Mikael very cool idea, I’m going to kick this back to management as well as Hibernate dev to see if this is dooable (or already on our todo list).

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