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Author: blafond
Date: 2010-08-27 11:11:03 -0400 (Fri, 27 Aug 2010)
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<h1>Teiid Designer 7.1.0 M2 What's New</h1>
<p>Last revised August 26, 2010</p>
<p><b>Teiid Designer</b>, which is new to JBoss Tools,
-is a visual tool that enables rapid, model-driven definition, integration, management and
testing of data services without programming using the <b>Teiid</b> runtime
framework.</p>
+is a graphical data modeling tool that enables rapid definition, integration, management
and testing of data services without
+programming using the <b>Teiid</b> runtime engine.</p>
<p>Below is simple introduction to the tool and a summary of a few basic
concepts.</p>
<p>For more details on <a
href="http://www.jboss.org/teiid.html">Teiid</a> and <a
href="http://www.jboss.org/teiiddesigner.html">Teiid Designer</a>
visit: <a
href="http://www.teiid.org">http://www.teiid.org</a></p>
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width="80%">
@@ -26,20 +27,15 @@
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<p><b>Designer "modeling"
Perspective</b></p></td>
<td valign="top">
- <p>The Teiid Designer perspective provides a modeling-centric
- explorer designed to aid in creating/editing and managing models (XMI/EMF-based)
and
- Virtual Databases (VDBs). When deployed to Teiid server, these VDB's are
treated like
+ <p>The Teiid Designer perspective provides a model
+ explorer for creating, editing and managing models (XMI/EMF-based) and
+ Virtual Databases (VDBs). When deployed to Teiid server, these VDBs can be
accessed like
any other JDBC data source and queried.</p>
<p><img src="images/designer-perspective.png" alt="Teiid
Designer Perspective"/></p>
- <p>If you've been following Teiid Designer since 7.0 development
you'll know that the 7.1 version
- reflects major changes to both Preview Data functionality and VDB editing and VDB
execution. These features
- are now tied to standard application deployment technology through the Teiid
Admin API.
- In Designer, the Teiid view is a window to view the contents of deployed Teiid
artifacts, namely Data Sources and
- Virtual Databases (VDB's).</p>
<p>A <strong>model</strong> is a representation of a set of
information constructs.
- A familiar <strong>model</strong> is the
<strong>relational</strong> <strong>model</strong>, which
+ A familiar model type is the <strong>relational</strong>
<strong>model</strong>, which
defines tables composed of columns and containing records of data. Another
- familiar model is the <strong>XML</strong>
<strong>model</strong>, which defines hierarchical data sets. </p>
+ familiar model type is the <strong>XML</strong>
<strong>model</strong>, which defines hierarchical data sets. </p>
<p>In <strong>Teiid Designer</strong>, models are used to define
the entities, and relationships between those
entities, required to fully define the integration of information sets so that they
may be accessed in a uniform manner,
using a single API and access protocol. The file extension used for these models is
'<strong>.xmi</strong>'
@@ -50,7 +46,7 @@
characteristics of the information contained in data sources. These are referred to
as <strong><EM>source</EM></strong> models<span
class="medium"></span>.
Teiid uses the information in <strong>source</strong> models to federate
the information
- in multiple sources, so that from a user's viewpoint these all appear to be in a
single source.</p>
+ from multiple sources, so that from a user's viewpoint these all appear to be in
a single source.</p>
<p>In addition to <strong>source</strong> models, Teiid Designer
provides the ability to
define a variety of <em><strong>view</strong></em>
models<span class="medium"></span>. These can be used to define
a layer of abstraction above the physical (or <strong>source</strong>)
layer, so that information can
@@ -62,11 +58,12 @@
<li><strong>XML</strong></li>
<li><strong>XML Service</strong></li>
<li><strong>Web services</strong></li>
- <li><strong>Relationship </strong></li>
- <li><strong>Extension</strong></li>
- <li><strong>Function </strong></li>
<li><strong>Uml 2.0 </strong></li>
</ul>
+ <p>In Teiid Designer 7.1 you can Preview Data through the models you've
created and execute queries against VDBs created
+ in your workspace. These features are enabled by deployment of VDB artifacts to an
instance of Teiid running in an
+ application server. In Designer, the Teiid view is a window which displays the
contents of your deployed Teiid artifacts,
+ namely Data Sources and Virtual Databases (VDBs).</p>
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</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><hr /></td></tr>
@@ -76,16 +73,13 @@
<td valign="top">
<p>A <strong>VDB</strong>, or <strong>Virtual
Database</strong> is a container for your models and pertinent source connection
data used by
Teiid query engine to access your federated data.</p>
- <p>Teiid Designer allows you to create and edit VDBs. The VDB is a zip-like
file that contains sources
- and view models, source connection information and index files used at runtime
for data identification
+ <p>Teiid Designer allows you to create and edit VDBs. The VDB is a zip
archive file that contains sources
+ and view models, source connection properties, index files used at runtime for
data identification,
and a manifest to pull it all together. </p>
- <p>VDBs contain two primary varieties of model types - source and view.
Source models represent the structure
- and characteristics of physical data sources, whereas view models represent the
structure and characteristics
- of abstract structures you want to expose to your applications.</p>
<p>Each source model must contain connectivity information in order for the
<strong>Teiid</strong> engine understand which
connection factory/data source instance to connect with. In particular, a
"<strong>Translator</strong>" name and an existing
"<strong>JNDI</strong>" name must be defined.</p>
- <p>After a VDB is defined, it must be deployed to the
<strong>Teiid</strong> query engine to be accessed. You can select a
+ <p>After a VDB is defined, it must be deployed to the
<strong>Teiid</strong> instance to be accessed. You can select a
VDB in your Model Explorer and right-click select "<strong>Modeling
> Deploy VDB</strong>" action or drag the VDB onto an
existing server connected in your <strong>Teiid</strong> view.
</p>
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@@ -96,9 +90,10 @@
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<p><b>Teiid as JDBC Data Source</b></p></td>
<td valign="top">
- <p><strong>Teiid Designer 7.1</strong> offers a JDBC
Connection Profile contribution through the DTP extension point. The properties for
+ <p><strong>Teiid Designer 7.1</strong> provides access to the
VDBs deployed to Teiid via a JDBC Connection Profile in the
+ Eclipse Database Development perspective. The properties for
this connection include standard JDBC inputs including URL, host, port,
user-name and password.</p>
- <p>Through this connection, you can perform standard SQL queries. The
nature of Teiid VDB's allows complex, multi-source
+ <p>Through this connection, you can perform standard SQL queries on VDBs.
The nature of the Teiid Virtual Database allows complex, multi-source
modeling and data transformation, so you can design views targeted for your
front-end applications and simplify or reduce
the work necessary to pull all that data together.</p>
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