Re: Seeking a simple java code generator for database CRUD web applications
jmDesktop wrote:
Is it necessary to have a "model" section of a framework create tables
in the database for you with a meta-language instead of just creating
the database with some other tool (like a visual adminstrator)? I was
Certainly not. Every system I've worked on to date has created the database
as a separate activity, using (in RDBMSes) SQL DDL to define the database.
I recommend scripted DDL rather than meta-languages.
using Django in Python for a little bit and their models are created
with their own "meta-language," and I couldn't figure out why that was
so much better than just creating them with a tools and referencing
them with an API. I know it worked and if "felt" all OOD, but it was
another complexity to master that I didn't quite see the benefit of,
but am open to why.
A step further - one can write quite successful data access layers using
direct JDBC calls.
Doing so will help you appreciate the value of the frameworks.
I agree that they're tricky to master, but that's in part because one must
step outside the playground of programming a little bit into the hard, adult
world of operations to make it all work. Managing databases and XML files and
how and when everything all hooks together is another kind of trickiness, just
in a different time and place from managing source code changes.
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