My suggestion for reading persistence XML is to use the PersistenceFacet:

Facets are how plugins interact with pieces of the underlying project:

project.getFacet(PersistenceFacet.class).getConfig();

(this will blow up if persistence is not installed, so you need to first call (project.hasFacet(PersistenceFacet.class))

~Lincoln

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM, brian <brianx@vt.edu> wrote:

hi L3 and john.

I was thinking about the persistence.xml.  Would using piping make sense
to read/parse the fields from the persistence.xml and then pass them to
GenerateEntities?

so "read-persistence | generate-entities" ?

...I'm not sure if a plugin can read a file, but if it could, a little
file-reader/parser might work?


On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 12:04 -0400, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> Hi John!
>
> Thank you for your interest! I think it's fair to say that we are
> "close" to having a fully-functional database reverse-engineering
> plugin, but we are not there yet. Brian (ccd) has been doing some work
> recently (when he has time) to get Max Andersen's prototype up and
> running. The prototype is here, but has a few shortcomings:
>
> https://github.com/forge/plugin-hibernate-tools
>      1. Connection settings are hardcoded
>      2. JDBC drivers are not included with the plugin
>      3. Does not take persistence.xml into account, if it exists
> In short, it works, but is not usable yet; however, these are all
> things that can be worked on if you are interested! And I would be
> more than happy to help you get together with Brian and get two brains
> working on this! Would you be intersted in that?
>
> No matter your level of commitment, I would recommend joining the dev
> and users lists:
>       * https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-dev
>       * https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/forge-users
> Just let me know and I'll get you all the info that you'll need :)
> ~Lincoln
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:57 PM, John du Clos <duclosjj@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>         Hi Lincoln-
>
>         I was chatting with Dan Allen and he mentioned you are working
>         on Forge and specifically the reverse engineering feature from
>         the database.  I wanted to reach out to you to see if you have
>         any early versions you need testers to help you verify this
>         feature.
>
>         I look forward to hearing from you!
>         John
>
>         --- On Wed, 3/16/11, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>                 From: Dan Allen <dan.j.allen@gmail.com>
>                 Subject: Re: Mojavelinux.com Feedback: seam-gen and
>                 cdi/weld
>                 To: duclosjj@yahoo.com
>                 Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 9:33 PM
>
>                 Hey John,
>                 Thanks for reading the book. I'm glad it helped you
>                 along. I know about those painful days of J2EE you are
>                 talking about.
>                 The best way to get started atm is using the Maven
>                 archetype.
>                 http://tinyurl.com/gojavaee
>                 That gives you a starter project. We don't yet have
>                 the reverse engineering yet for this environment. That
>                 what Forge will offer soon. Check out the issue
>                 tracker or mailing list for updates.
>                 Hope that gets you started. Cheers,
>                 - Dan Allen
>                 Sent from my Android-powered phone:
>                 An open platform for carriers, consumers and
>                 developers
>                 On Mar 16, 2011 9:04 PM, <duclosjj@yahoo.com> wrote:
>                 > Submitted by: John duClos <duclosjj@yahoo.com> on
>                 Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 @ 9:04:25 pm (-0400)
>                 >
>                 > Online Form Fields
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>                 >
>                 > Url:
>                 >
>                 >
>                 > Message:
>                 > Dan-
>                 >
>                 > I purchased your Seam book when it was published and
>                 am a supporter of
>                 > the Seam framework since I lived the challenging
>                 days of early J2EE
>                 > development.
>                 >
>                 > I work with database centric solutions and seam-gen
>                 allowed me to
>                 > develop solutions in record time by getting my
>                 project started very
>                 > quickly. I'd like to start implementing JEE 6/CDI
>                 with JBoss AS 6, but
>                 > I can't seem to find a way to issue the seam-gen
>                 command.
>                 >
>                 > I looked at Forge but that is not where seam-gem
>                 was. Do you know of a
>                 > valid seam-gen solution for JEE 6/CDI based projects
>                 (Seam 3).
>                 >
>                 > Thanks,
>                 > John
>                 >
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> --
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