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Re: Read (and Visualize)

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  To: comp.lang.java.databases,
send.me.all.email@googlemail.com wrote:
> 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
> 
I believe I have seen Eclipse plugin doing just this - probably 
azzurri.clay. I played with it some time ago - you setup parameters like 
database connection, user, password, database used - and it produces 
picture or some structure with database schema.

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