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Subject: Re: next generator
From: Thomas Fogwill <tfogwill@csir.co.za>
To: Turbine Torque Developers List <torque-dev@db.apache.org>
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Date: 14 May 2003 11:37:23 +0200
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Hi Emmanuel

This would indeed be something useful. However, since torque is now
decoupled from turbine, this is probably not the place for the turbine
screens and actions to be generated.

I am currently, together with 2 of my colleagues, integrating turbine
and torque into middlegen (http://sourceforge.net/projects/middlegen/). 

The idea is to generate the frontend code (turbine screen classes and
templates, in our case), action classes (turbine actions), and backend
classes (torque classes). 

Middlegen is quite a flexible tool - it allows one to easily write your
own plugins. We are currently also implementing an adapter plugin, which
provides the glue between your action layer and your backend/persistence
layer, allowing one to target different frontend/backend combinations
(e.g. turbine with EJB, struts with torque, turbine with torque, etc.)

Maybe this is something you could use? It is still a work in progress,
but the plugins should be in a useable state soon. 

Regards
-- 
Thomas Fogwill <tfogwill@csir.co.za>
Senior Systems Architect/Developer: ICT Programme
Information, Communication and Space Technology
CSIR
Tel: +27 12 841 3155


On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 20:27, Emmanuel Florent wrote:
> I think that would be nice if the torque-generator get a new task for
> generating some of the *.vm corresponding to the turbine-site/tdk
> directories. - update(delete-insert) ,list,show all or some records of
> each table - 
> 
> If you consider that torque-generator reduce the amount of time to an
> amount equal to the language/server technologie (aka servlets) introduce
> - compared to other language knows to be easiest and cost less
> especially in smalls and very smalls projects, where the servlet
> technology have a little marketshare - enhancing the excellent torque
> generator tasks make websites change.
> 
> That would allow the designers to start their works earlier again in the
> project lifecycle, and limitate the amount of time i spend in making
> those often the sames, reproductibles templates just after I did the tdk
> how-to, and get my project-schema.xml.
> 
> In that case the DTD could be altered to have : 
> show
> listing
> insert
> delete
> update as supplementals attribute for a table.
> 
> That would allow let the configuration being generated from flow
> diagrams, and so this quite  reasonnable feature become a really killing
> feat.
> 
> Maybe that should be better to let this feature to the corps.
> 
> - considering that the needed new rep in the template directory would
> have a strange look code - 
> Can make this code begin too complex and to get a pure .class aproach
> more reasonnable in that case ? 
> Is protecting velocity's keywords a big issue ? 
> And is anyone planning smthg about this ? 
> How would you rate this feature ?
> 
> Please apologize for my poor english.
> 
> Emmanuel 
> 
> 
> 


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