On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 17:31 -0400, John Doyle wrote: Actually, we need both. +1 for both. We need a better support for for Text based data modeling. Teiid tooling support for this is sub par compared to other text importing tools. We should be able to point to a text file and try to guess the metadata and build the model/schema based on data contents. This is a feature missing in Teiid, which it should have had long time ago. Based on the "Connector Metadata" feature, if we have a generic Connector based importer, it would be useful to provide metadata facilities for less complicated sources (or even as the first step). However to drive a intelligent UI, we may need to put in little more work. Also, note that this paradigm is a shift from current Designer approach. Currently Designer, first builds the metadata and then creates/attaches to the Connector. In this scenario, it would need to create the Connector first, metadata next. Ramesh..