Re: [teiid-designer-dev] Connection Factories
Perhaps I'm wrong, so set me straight if necessary.
Not too long ago we added the preview capability so users could easily see how their
modeling efforts were turning out. The key, from a competitive point of view, was
"easily".
Now it appears to preview data I need the Designer, a running JBoss AS, and JON in a
browser so I can put all the pieces together. With MetaMatrix 5.5.4 all I need is the
Designer.
What happened to "easily"?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Lafond" <blafond(a)redhat.com>
To: "teiid-designer-dev" <teiid-designer-dev(a)lists.jboss.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 2:55:21 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: [teiid-designer-dev] Connection Factories
Per recent discussions and decisions about our Connector framework I want to clarify our
current direction for Designer. So please decipher the following and speak up now.
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A) We are proposing removing the notion of general "editing/managing" Connection
Factories (formerly known in Designer as Connectors).
B) This would mean that users would NOT be able to select Connectors (Types) and create
new instances of them (Connection Factories) NOR edit existing instances on a given
Server. That responsibility will be on the shoulders of JON.
C) For the purposes of "Preview Data" and even VDB Execution, Designer WILL
assist the process of matching/binding sources to existing Connection Factories using any
JDBC Source/URL information available within source models.
- During JDBC Import, the URL information will be used to try and match /select an
existing Server Connector &/or Connection Factory
- If an existing Connection Factory does not exist AND the URL information sufficiently
matches the properties for a Connector (TYPE), then a Connector Factory will be created
and the source binding created.
- If no Connection Factory can be matched/created user can Select One (which may or may
not work) or the Source cannot be previewed or executed in a VDB.
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If you disagree with this functionality or have any questions, please respond....
otherwise we'll be gutting a bunch of UI code in the next day or so :)
Barry LaFond
Teiid Designer Project
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