Summer of Code 2008
Project: cayenne-modeler-improvements
The goal of the project is to improve usability of Cayenne main modeling GUI tool, CayenneModeler. CayenneModeler is a cross-platform Swing application. The task is made of a number of subtasks described below. It is not required for the student to complete all these tasks. For the project to be considered a success, a student must complete at least a couple of major tasks though (such as copy/paste, right-click contextual menus, multiple selections, etc.).
Tasks:
- Support for copy/paste of entities/attributes/relationships
- Improved ObjRelationship mapping dialog (CAY-1077
) - Undo functionality.
- Colored syntax for SQLTemplate (e.g. via jEdit Syntax Package per CAY-892)
- Welcome Screen (CAY-894)
- Change default object relationship delete rule (CAY-436)
- A log console window (CAY-366)
Finished Tasks:
- Right-click contextual menu for entities/attributes/relationships that would include common operations, like "delete". (CAY-1055)
- JComboBox autocompletion (CAY-911)
- Detection of the project file changes on disk (CAY-1056).
- ObjectSelectQuery improvements (CAY-888)
- Allow multiple item selections on the left-hand project tree and right-hand attribute panels. Common operations (like "delete") should work on multiple objects(CAY-1060).
Abandoned Tasks: