Archive for 2010

Data model consistency

One of the strengths of CA Gen is the fact that it can manage your data model fron end to end. There are however dangers in NOT doing this.

Consider a situation where a site adds a new entity to the data model – the database team then add that table and a few indexes to the the database (independently – without using retransformation).

The development team then code the application around the new entity, test it in various environments and it goes into production.

However, the database team have to modify the DDL for each environment (because they need to tweak storage parameters, for example), and they accidentally misspell a column name when they apply the change to the production database.

The application is going to fall over.

OK – perhaps this says more about a site’s configuration management than CA Gen, but it does point to the fact that if you let CA Gen produce your DDL and apply it to a database, you will have more confidence in the consistency of the Logical Data Model and the Physical Data Model (i.e. your entities and your tables)

Let CA Gen do its’ work for you !

Now – if only we could import ERWin schemas into CA Gen…..

CA Gen on Wikipedia

The CA Gen entry on Wikipedia is sometimes the first time people come across information about the toolset.

Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia, so t’s possible to add information to the entry to make it more complete.

Take the time to view the entry and edit it (it’s really easy!) and add to it – links, features and so on all make the entry fuller and more compelling to read!

See if you can fill in the missing Jigsaw piece!

6th Japanese CA Gen User Group day

You can download the materials from the 6th Japanese CA Gen user group day here . There are some interesting allusions to products and future directions – you don’t need to know Japanese to understand what it says, but it helps (although if you join the Japanese User Group at the CA Communities website – there’s an English translation !)

Watch these spaces !

EDGE APAC 2010 is now !

EDGE APAC 2010 is on NOW in Canberra, Australia – hopefully, someone who’s there will let me know how it went and grab some pictures !

Looks like a great Agenda !

Special Interest in CA Gen

Over at the CA Communities website, some interesting new discussions have been started – concerning CA Gen, runtime architectures, total cost of ownership and technical roadmaps. Contributing to these are and will be some of the best minds in the CA Gen world – starting off with the legendary Danny Saro !

Danny has extensive experience of CA Gen and his views on how CA Gen should be used, considerations of frameworks and software infrastructures make stimulating reading. The advantages of the CA Communities discussion boards is that they can encourage architects and others in the CA Gen world to bounce ideas off one another, feeding and learning from others’ experiences.

Go log on and see what Danny says about customising web services, for example to see what I mean.