Re: Feedback on Java Code Generator

Tim Jowers wrote:
> Chris, what I'm thinking about is the page-flow logic as a workflow 
> and the workflow as a set-population. The sets are the relations and 
> the overall set of sets for the workflow is all related tables 
> (relations). Thus the workflow could be generated by knowing the 
> relationships of the relations. The user would then only have to 
> decide the ordering of the screen ( e.g. start with the leaf nodes or 
> start with the tables having FK's). That's my thought process right now.

This is certainly an interesting prospect and I don't know if anyone's 
doing it currently.  Seam uses jBPM to control page flow (optionally I 
believe) so it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine some simple declarative 
way to choose which entities comprise a page flow and allow the system 
to lay out what makes sense (and also understand how to handle 
exceptions).  Last time I looked at Rails it had some rudimentary 
association handling but I don't believe it created any flows (that was 
probably 1-2 years ago though).

If you're interested in continuing this discussion, I'd urge you to stop 
by the Seam user forum [1] -- propose this idea and see what comes 
back.  The developers are very active there and you might get some good 
info.

Best,

Chris


[1] http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewforum&f=231