<div class="gmail_quote">Hi!<br><br>I'm glad to announce the beta version of Phoseydon, one of the new dbxtalk tools developed as part of the summer of talk project, supported by ESUG.<br><br>So,<br><br><b>What is Phoseydon?</b><br>
It is a tool aimed to model and create applications easily, as Ruby does with Rails or python with Django. You describe a model, and from that model a relational database + an object model + an ORM mapping are fed from that model.<br>
<br><b>What does Phoseydon beta includes?</b><br>By now, it reads a database schema, builds a model description from it and then allows us to:<br>- write classes from that description.<br>- serialize that description as Magritte descriptions on the created classes.<br>
- build a Glorp mapping from that description.<br><br>Glorp descriptions right now support Simple mappings (Strings, numbers, booleans..), OneToOne relationships, and ManyToOne relationships.<br><br><b>What does it do in the background?</b><br>
It tries to explode Magritte benefits to create apps. The model's description is just a magritte descrition, so our class writer, magritte serializer and Glorp mapping builder use magritte visitors to consume that information.<br>
This allows people to build i.e. SOAP web services from these same magritte descriptions.<br><br><b>Where is the documentation?<br></b>Download info from: <a href="http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Download">http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Download</a><br>
First Phoseydon doc: <a href="http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Documentation/creating-your-first-dbx-application-with-phoseydon">http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Documentation/creating-your-first-dbx-application-with-phoseydon</a><br>
<br><b>What is to come?</b><br>- Editing your model descriptions in runtime<br>- Create your model descriptions without a database<br>- More easy Glorp mappings support :) (like embedding objects, inheritance and more collections kinds)<br>
<br>Please, feel free to provide feedback, critics and suggestions :). You'll find the project's issue tracker and mailing list @ <a href="http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Support" target="_blank">http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Support</a><br>
<br>Cheers,<br>The DBXTalk Team<br></div>