Author: blafond Date: 2010-08-27 11:11:03 -0400 (Fri, 27 Aug 2010) New Revision: 24508 Modified: trunk/documentation/whatsnew/teiid/teiid-news-7.1.0.M2.html Log: JBIDE-6916 Applied suggested edits from feedback on draft. Modified: trunk/documentation/whatsnew/teiid/teiid-news-7.1.0.M2.html =================================================================== --- trunk/documentation/whatsnew/teiid/teiid-news-7.1.0.M2.html 2010-08-27 15:06:56 UTC (rev 24507) +++ trunk/documentation/whatsnew/teiid/teiid-news-7.1.0.M2.html 2010-08-27 15:11:03 UTC (rev 24508) @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ <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> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="80%"> @@ -26,20 +27,15 @@ <td valign="top" align="left"> <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> </td> </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> </td> @@ -96,9 +90,10 @@ <td valign="top" align="left"> <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> </td>