shane mingins

Initially I am not sure what the repository has to do with anything? You
wish to create the db schema from the project not the repository, correct?

Have a look at the apache project for OJB .... I am not sure where it is at
but one of the things it was aiming to do was to generate a db schema from
the XML file that is used to define the class->table dependencies. OJB is
an O/R Mapping tool. It is open source so you may get ideas from it or may
decide that it is just the solution you need. http://db.apache.org/ojb/

Otherwise I think what you are wishing to do would greatly be influenced by
how you are accessing the the database from your application. E.g. are you
using a Data Mapper pattern as described in Pattern of Enterprise
Application Architecture (Martin Fowler)?

HTH
Shane


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