| [DataBinding]: Any RAD plugins for CRUD client-server apps? [message #317485] |
Wed, 04 July 2007 16:31  |
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Originally posted by: akarypid.yahoo.gr
Hi all,
J2EE may be at the center of everyone's attention, but I have a feeling
we are not the only shop that just wants to quickly build form-based
rich client apps using the good old client-server model.
Now that Eclipse 3.3 is out and the JFace data-binding framework is
stable, I want to transition our application to RCP (the thin client
model does not suit us). We are looking for a tool (commercial, free we
don't care) that will allow us to _quickly_ create RCP editors / views
by pulling data directly from a database. To give you a notion of the
functionality we expect from this tool, we're interested in something
like Delphi, PowerBuilder and the good old Oracle Forms builder.
Of course, we don't mind a persistence layer like JDO/Hibernate, but our
data model IS the database schema. So it's important that the tool
produce forms by reading table specifications rather than forcing us to
use XML descriptions or even POJOs for that purpose.
Is there any such product out there?
I've just taken a look at Netbeans 6 M10 and they seem to be going in
the right direction, but they'll be releasing around November, whereas
we need to get started as of yesterday if you know what I mean...
Thanks.
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| Re: [DataBinding]: Any RAD plugins for CRUD client-server apps? [message #317493 is a reply to message #317485] |
Thu, 05 July 2007 03:31  |
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Hi,
All though I don't know of a tool out of the box I have a few hints for you.
1. Creating POJOs from a database schema might possible using the
following OSS technologies:
- http://db.apache.org/ddlutils/ + http://db.apache.org/torque/
You can use ddlutils to create schema.xml and use torque to create
POJOs and DAO-Classes for you.
2. Binding those POJOs to widget and designing the widget with a
visual-designer is available in the latest release of
http://www.swt-designer.com/
I'm currently writing an article how to work with JFace-Databinding, EMF
and iBatis (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=195163) and on
the other front I'm working on a complete toolchain (see
http://tom-eclipse-dev.blogspot.com/2007/03/xswt-databinding -dataforms.html
and http://tom-eclipse-dev.blogspot.com/2007/06/things-are-evolv eing.html).
Last but not least:
There also the teneo project working on top of EMF which makes databases
accessible (via hibernate) out of the box. I haven't used it but it
looks very interesting to me.
See http://www.eclipse.org/emft/projects/teneo/
Tom
Alexandros Karypidis schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> J2EE may be at the center of everyone's attention, but I have a feeling
> we are not the only shop that just wants to quickly build form-based
> rich client apps using the good old client-server model.
>
> Now that Eclipse 3.3 is out and the JFace data-binding framework is
> stable, I want to transition our application to RCP (the thin client
> model does not suit us). We are looking for a tool (commercial, free we
> don't care) that will allow us to _quickly_ create RCP editors / views
> by pulling data directly from a database. To give you a notion of the
> functionality we expect from this tool, we're interested in something
> like Delphi, PowerBuilder and the good old Oracle Forms builder.
>
> Of course, we don't mind a persistence layer like JDO/Hibernate, but our
> data model IS the database schema. So it's important that the tool
> produce forms by reading table specifications rather than forcing us to
> use XML descriptions or even POJOs for that purpose.
>
> Is there any such product out there?
>
> I've just taken a look at Netbeans 6 M10 and they seem to be going in
> the right direction, but they'll be releasing around November, whereas
> we need to get started as of yesterday if you know what I mean...
>
> Thanks.
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| Re: [DataBinding]: Any RAD plugins for CRUD client-server apps? [message #320113 is a reply to message #317485] |
Wed, 12 September 2007 02:39 |
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Alexandros Karypidis schrieb:
> Now that Eclipse 3.3 is out and the JFace data-binding framework is
> stable, I want to transition our application to RCP (the thin client
> model does not suit us). We are looking for a tool (commercial, free we
> don't care) that will allow us to _quickly_ create RCP editors / views
> by pulling data directly from a database. To give you a notion of the
> functionality we expect from this tool, we're interested in something
> like Delphi, PowerBuilder and the good old Oracle Forms builder.
What you may want to investigate (also it is a commercial Solution) is
Instantinations Window Builder / SWT Designer.
Support for RCP / JFace / Databinding and so on.
> Of course, we don't mind a persistence layer like JDO/Hibernate, but our
> data model IS the database schema. So it's important that the tool
> produce forms by reading table specifications rather than forcing us to
> use XML descriptions or even POJOs for that purpose.
For that i use the MyEclipse Distribution. Also commercial but it works
like a charm. ( I have to admit it is a little bit web centric but you
can use the DataBase Stuff also in RCP Environments )
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> Is there any such product out there?
>
> I've just taken a look at Netbeans 6 M10 and they seem to be going in
> the right direction, but they'll be releasing around November, whereas
> we need to get started as of yesterday if you know what I mean...
Greetings
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