"Import EOModel" support

> On Jan 1, 2022, at 3:31 PM, Michael Gentry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> "I know EOF of the olden times had an LDAP adapter..."
> 
> Wow, that brings back unpleasant memories...  Speaking of EOF (and I don't
> want to hijack this thread, so feel free to reply in a new one), how long
> is Cayenne going to support EOModels? It isn't a lot of baggage that is
> carried around, but still baggage.

This functionality is not often used, but, believe it or not, there are still substantial systems built on EOF out there. So this button in the Modeler encourages and helps them to migrate to Cayenne. 

Having said that, the current importer is somewhat limited. For instance it does not support multiple models. We at ObjectStyle are developing closed-source CLI tool for the full EOF migration. I am hoping we can open source it at some point. But even if we can't, we can still transfer the current importer to its own simple Bootique CLI. 

So I would say the current Modeler should keep the "Import EOModel" button around, but whatever new Modeler we develop doesn't have to, as the CLI tool will replace it.

Andrus