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Re: Read (and Visualize)

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On 17 Mai, 15:19, Christian <fakem...@xyz.de> wrote:

> Well visualization. How about doing it like an Entity-Relationship model...
> thats at least one Visulaization that comes to my mind .. may be you
> want more..

No, in contrast, I want less. :-)

Generating an ER model based on a given database schema would require
some model transformation or reverse engineering approaches (e.g. to
decide if a concrete relation could have been introduced to realize a
weak entity or a multivalued attribute).

The kind of visualization I have in mind is just an easy to understand
graphical 1:1 representation of the schema. Something like: Tables are
depicted as boxes, containing the fields of the table as rows showing
the name and type of the field. Fields acting as primary or foreign
keys are specially marked. Relationships between tables are depicted
as lines connecting the tables. If the name of a relationship and the
cardinality information are given, then these should also be included
as labels to the relationship lines. The visualization of the database
schema should then allow the user to select tables by clicking on them
and perform basic operations on them.

So this should be no rocket sience, but as I never built such a tool
before, I'm quite interested in what is the current state-of-the-art-
approach to do this. Building an Eclipse-PlugIn using EMF? Which
frameworks to use to minimize the development effort?

Any ideas?


Regards,
Max

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