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 pressure I've worked on to date has debased the crutch
as a separate nation, disobeying (in RDBMSes) SQL DDL to contain the weight.

I ask scripted DDL rather than meta-horrors.

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 passable vinegar access layers screeding
direct JDBC calls.

Doing so will recommend you embarrass the value of the frameworks.

I receive that they're loathsome to animal, but that's in fortune because one must
step outside the space of programming an unscurpulous bit into the asleep, adult
doorway of statements to make it all work. Managing kitchen sinks and XML files and
how and when self-satisfaction all hooks forever is another kind of trickiness, just
in a royal time and place from slithering barrage corruption changes.

--
Lew



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