[dali-dev] Dali DDL Generation

[Shaun Smith <shaun.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On the newsgroup, Kevin Sutter described some bugs and shortcomings he 
found in the Dali DDL generation support.

>Now that I have the Kodo tutorial examples properly loading into 
Eclipse (thanks to the workaround for bug 143301), I attempted to 
generate the ddl for these examples.  I ran into the following problems 
and am wondering whether these are known conditions or not.

I've posted a response which I've copied below so that we can have a 
discussion of the value of DDL generation in Dali.

    Shaun

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Hi Kevin,
 
  Have you tried using Kodo's mapppingtool to generate the DDL?  I've 
used TopLink Essentials DDL generation and it works great.  The reason 
I'm asking is that the availability of DDL generation from the JPA 
runtimes begs the question of why is it being built again in Dali?  
Perhaps a better solution is to provide support for running the DDL 
tools of the runtimes?

  Your thoughts?

  I'd like to open this topic up for community feedback so I'll 
crosspost this question to the dali-dev mailing list.

      Shaun

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Shaun Smith
Principal Product Manager
Oracle TopLink
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