This is an application to assist in the creation and maintenance of the mapping
files used by Castor (http://castor.exolab.org).
It has been brought (mostly) into compliance with Castor version 0.9.
Note any field names with "[multi]" in them expect space-delimited input to set multiple
values.
I am no longer associated with the Castor project, and provide Oil
as a convenience to the community. The code has been donated to those in charge of
Castor - any issues should be addressed to them. CastorOil.jar was last assembled
3/6/2001, user beware, this code is no longer supported.
CURRENT FEATURES
Reads database and creates Castor mapping properties.
Writes mapping.xml from Castor mapping properties.
Reads mapping.xml and creates Castor mapping properties.
Writes java source for each element in mapping.
SHORTCOMINGS & FUTURE PLANS
Need to implement Containers (add org.exolab.castor.tools.oil.tablemodel.Container).
Plan to add ability to edit tree/mapping (add & remove nodes).
Plan to add additional data points to facilitate better javasource generation.
Plan to add ability to generate database creation sql script.
OTHER ISSUES
This project was started using VisualCafe. Though I've tried to eliminate
them, some vestiges of VCafe may remain.
Originally designed with the 0.8.8 mapping dtd, how do Relations (and
relationships in general) now get mapped?
Basing some of the work off examples, I had to copy the ExampleFileFilter
from the JFC demo and rename it ExtensionFileFilter. Not sure of the copyright issues.
Get it here, the package goes inside org.exolab.castor.tools
(org.exolab.castor.tools.oil).
