Mailing list now available from nabble

The dbxtalk mailing list is now availiable from Nabble :)

http://forum.world.st/DBXTalk-f3718169.html

Thank you very much to Geert Claes(geert.wl.claes@gmail.com) who made it possible!!

Enjoy, The DBXTalk team

Neptuno First Stable Version Release

Hi!

We are glad to announce the first stable release of the DBXBrowser, named Neptuno, the last piece in the DBXTalk tools project sponsored by ESUG.

What is this browser? It is a Glamour based browser which works as a GUI to work with OpenDBX connections.

How does it look like? I attach a screenshot with a brief look :)

Which databases does it work with? It is currently working with OpenDBX connectors for: - mysql - postgresql - oracle - sqlite

How should I download it?

http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Download

Gofer it
    squeaksource: 'MetacelloRepository';
    package: 'ConfigurationOfDBXBrowser';
    load.

(((Smalltalk at: #ConfigurationOfDBXTools)
    perform: #project)
        perform: #version: with: #stable)
            load: 'Neptuno'

How should I contact the DBXTalk team for feedback, bug reports, questions, or whatever?

http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/Support

Thanks! The DBXTalk team

Phoseydon Beta 2 Release

We're willing to announce the second beta release of Phoseydon, part of the DBXTalk project, supported by ESUG :).

It's main new feature is a simple internal dsl to generate entities, so you can create applications from something like:

personEntity := application entityNamed: #Person.
personEntity
	hasString: #nickname;
	hasInteger: #age;
	hasBoolean: #isProgrammer.

petEntity := application entityNamed: #Pet.
petEntity
	hasString: #nickname.

personEntity hasMany: #Pet as: #pets.
petEntity hasOne: #Person as: #owner.

Also, a little manual is already written in:

http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Documentation

For download:

http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Download

Issues, mails, questions:

http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Support

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http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/news?view=PBEntriesRssView

Cheers, the DBXTalk Team

Phoseydon Beta Release

What is Phoseydon? 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 plus an object model plus an ORM mapping are fed from that model.

What does Phoseydon beta includes? By now, it reads a database schema, builds a model description from it and then allows us to:

• write classes from that description.
• serialize that description as Magritte descriptions on the created classes.
• build a Glorp mapping from that description.

Glorp descriptions right now support Simple mappings (Strings, numbers, booleans..), OneToOne relationships, and ManyToOne relationships.

What does it do in the background? 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. This allows people to build i.e. SOAP web services from these same magritte descriptions.

Where is the documentation?

Download info from: http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Download

Phoseydon docs: http://dbxtalk.smallworks.com.ar/pier/Documentation

What is to come?

• Editing your model descriptions in runtime
• Create your model descriptions without a database
• More easy Glorp mappings support :) (like embedding objects, inheritance and more collections kinds)

Cheers, The DBXTalk team

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