Re: WOLips Entity Modeler Reverse Engineer

I've got an Eclipse 3.5 install that I just use to reverse engineer  
databases, then I move the model into my working space (3.4.x)

Steve

Stephen R. Smith
Align Software Inc.

On May 8, 2010, at 1:21 AM, Mark Ritchie <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7/May/2010, at 7:28 AM, Chad Pilkington wrote:
>> I am using WOLips 3.4.5830 and Eclipse 3.4.2.  I am trying to  
>> reverse engineer some MySql tables in the Entity Modeler which does  
>> not seem to work.  I read some talk of a bug.  Has there been a fix  
>> or a workaround for this yet?
>
> Hey Chad!
>
> Yeah... Reverse Engineering is broken in Eclipse 3.4
>
> The relevant patches to fix it were submitted here:
> http://issues.objectstyle.org/jira/browse/WOL-1077
> http://issues.objectstyle.org/jira/browse/WOL-1078
> http://issues.objectstyle.org/jira/browse/WOL-1079
>
> Download the source, patch with the above bits and launch as per:
> http://wiki.objectstyle.org/confluence/display/WOL/Debugging+WOLips
>
> Unfortunately, there's a platform problem on Windoz with at least  
> one of the patches above so the patches haven't been applied to the  
> respository.
>
> This is what I do to get Eclipse running with a version of WOLips  
> where reverse engineering works.
> The reason that you get no feed back is fixed by one of the patches  
> above.. All the exceptions are eaten by code which should never have  
> been committed... IMHO! ;-)
>
> This is needed for Eclipse 3.4.
> I'm told that it's not likely to be fixed.
> Reverse engineering works in 3.5.
> So, perhaps it's time to investigate switching versions! ;-)
> M.
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