New Look&Feel of Enhydra Site

[Lofi Dewanto <dewanto@xxxxxx>]

Hi All,

first of all: Happy new year to Enhydra Community! Hope
to see a lot of new things coming in Enhydra in 2006!

I really like the new look&feel of Enhydra site, cool and
very easy to navigate!

I also read this part:
"A graphical DODS editor based on UML, possibly replace DOML schema with
UML/XMI"

This would be very nice! IMO it's worthwhile to base this on UML since:
1) You have some UML tools available (ArgoUML, Poseidon,
   MagicDraw, ...).
2) You need not to build your own tool for building DODS application,
   so you can save resources and use it somewhere else.

The next step would be to write an AndroMDA cartridge (MDA) to let all
the DODS file automatically created/generated. Please see the example of
Hibernate cartridge:
http://www.andromda.org/andromda-hibernate-cartridge/index.html

EJOSA (http://ejosa.sourceforge.net - now also with new look&feel :-))
has already an AndroMDA cartridge for EAF/XMLC presentation layer.
See: http://www.jaxmag.com/itr/online_artikel/psecom,id,653,nodeid,147.html

If we have a DODS cartridge, we will be able to create a complete
Enhydra Application (EAF/XMLC with DODS) completely based on UML. This
would IMO enrich Enhydra products.

At the moment we are updating the cartridges (also the EAF/XMLC) to
AndroMDA 3.1. All the examples (PiggyBank) will be also updated to
Enhydra Enterprise 6.5.x. I'll inform the community as soon as we 
finished this work.

Cheers,
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Blasius Lofi Dewanto
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