Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Green Beans

[Nic Ferrier]

address@hidden writes:

> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org. 
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden 
>  
> Dan Bennett <address@hidden> described the package as follows: 
> License: gpl 
> Other License:  
> Package: Green Beans 
> System name: greenbeans 
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project 
>  
> GreenBeans is an application to generate calling wrapper stubs for
> database stored procedures. A common complaint with stored
> procedures is that application developers have to maintain a set of
> \'wrapper\' classes to access the stored procedures. As the database
> guys change the procs the apps guys find their code doesn\'t
> work. GreenBeans automates this task by automatically generating
> compilable source code to call the stored procedures.
>  
> The application is designed to support multiple source databases and
> output languages but currently only drivers for Oracle 8i and Java 2
> code generation are available. There are also some limitations
> regarding datatypes (for example, it doesn\'t support Blobs yet).
>  
> There are currently both command line and a simple GUI interfaces. 
>  
> Going forward, we\'d like to add additional database drivers and
> target additional output languages such as:
>  
> ServerSideJavaScript 
> ASP 
> Delphi 
> etc. 
>  
> It already exists but you can\'t see it because I don't have
> anywhere to host it. Let me know if you want me to send a zip of the
> code.
>  

Hi savannah hackers.

I'm involved with this a bit and wanted to add some extra info.

Green Beans is written in Java but relies on free code only. The
Oracle binding that Dan refers to is not strict, it's actually done
through an API called JDBC which is available for free. All the
popular free databases (eg: MySQL, PostgreSQL) support the JDBC API
which means that we'll be able to use GreenBeans for them.


Nic