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[news.eclipse.technology.lepido] Interested in MDA Feature Details

Hello,

this project has a very high potential in my opinion. Cocoon is a very interesting framework, but lacks good development tools. The combination of both can boost productivity.

Especially the MDA feature which is mentioned in the roadmap, is interesting for me. I am just designing a concept of a generic web application, which automatically creates view/edit forms from data model XML definitions.

My choice was to use Cocoon because of its flexible handling of XML and rendering options, and its clear separation of logic and GUI presentation, different to the ugly JSP approach.

My question is, how would your MDA approach look like in detail ? I assume the user would create a data definition XML (which is more database oriented), then appends GUI specific information (like in the form definition files), and then the system automatically could create view/edit forms.

One could use a general template for view forms, and one for edit forms.

In my opinion, best would be not to generate code/XML's at all, but just let the user configure a set of preexisting templates which are generic enough to handle the usual data entry fuctionality at runtime. We then could deploy a generic web application (with basic functionality, like sorting/filtering), which can be customized by the user/developer for its concrete data model. This is my long-term goal...Comments ?

Best regards,

Christian Sy
Magicon Systems GmbH