Fwd: Raw XML vs. Cayenne GUI

[Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org>]

FYI:

As Chris followed up on his suggestion to start working on a Wiki  
page describing Cayenne XML format, I added Chris to "cayenne-user"  
Wiki group and I made some permission changes in the CAY space,  
allowing "cayenne-user" to edit the space. Note that since we do not  
include the contents of this space in the release, this is the only  
space where users without a CLA on file may be allowed. But of course  
if we are to transfer the contents to CAYDOC, we'll need a CLA.

Andrus


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Chris Farnham" <cf...@cra.com>
> Date: September 26, 2007 4:42:22 PM GMT+03:00
> To: <us...@cayenne.apache.org>
> Subject: RE: Raw XML vs. Cayenne GUI
> Reply-To: user@cayenne.apache.org
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>> Such a thing would probably help other people and improve the
>> usability of Cayenne. Perhaps you'd like to start a page here:
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>> http://cwiki.apache.org/CAY/
>>
>> Eventually this could be merged into the main documentation.
>
> In the next day or two I'll add a Wiki page as suggested.  I expect it
> will be a strawman as much as anything.
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> Thanks,
> Chris
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> From: Aristedes Maniatis [mailto:ari@maniatis.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 5:24 AM
> To: user@cayenne.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Raw XML vs. Cayenne GUI
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> On 26/09/2007, at 9:57 AM, Chris Farnham wrote:
>
>> Do other people feel the same way I do?
>> If so, can Cayenne better support both modes of use?
>
> Sure.
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>> I would like to see documentation and examples that are XML  
>> descriptor
>> centric as well as GUI centric.
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> I think that would be useful to a number of people.
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>> I also think that it'd be an interesting project to look at the
>> current
>> XML syntax and make it a little more user/text-editor friendly.  I
>> have
>> no concrete ideas on this latter point but I've been playing around
>> with
>> DSLs in other areas and it might be neat to either streamline
>> Cayenne's
>> XML syntax or create a DSL.  Either of these could be transformed  
>> into
>> the current XML syntax.
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> The advantage of XML is that there are any number of ways to author
> the content.
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>> I only raise this issue because I've enjoyed using Cayenne and would
>> like to see it improve.
>
> Such a thing would probably help other people and improve the
> usability of Cayenne. Perhaps you'd like to start a page here:
>
> http://cwiki.apache.org/CAY/
>
> Eventually this could be merged into the main documentation.
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> Ari Maniatis
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