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How, for example would you query the HE to find entity types that have not been implemented in the Technical Design?

I’ve looked at this and can’t for the life of me construct a query to do this – does anyone know how to get this information out of the HE ?

One of the things that would make our lives easier would be an easy query interface to the HE and CSE. I know that we have the public interface, but it’s still hard – can anyone help ?????

Specifically:

• Producing custom WSDL from the PSTEP I/D
• Doing “contract-first” design
• Performance tuning
• Simple and Complex type definition
• Security

These are the things that modern SOA systems are mindful of and need to do – discussion would be great, since this is a new-ish field of play for CA Gen, and many organisations will be considering this !

What do you

want CA Gen to do

for you in 2011 ?

I want CA Gen to continue to save me more development costs, let my developers be more productive, and finally, let me not worry about my platforms !

Just like it always has, but more of the same !

First in the line to be highlighted is this one : “So now I’m home!” which was a look back at CA World 2010 and the tooling announcements by IET, APG and other partners. The fact that APG has invested in tooling to bring people TO CA Gen from other technologies is encouraging shows that there’s a market for that out there and it IS being successfully done.

More next time….

A brand new Jaguar (can’t afford that)

A second-hand Jaguar (can’t afford that either)….

….think….

I’ll settle for no call-outs over the Christmas period due to system failures. OK – It’s one of these Christmas presents that you know you are gonna have, but are happy when you get it !

Gen systems are among the most stable systems I have ever worked with and their stability never ceases to amaze me – which is why on Christmas morning my mobile phone will be off and no call-outs need to be taken!

Christmas – sooooooo predictable !

The behaviour was that a local view I’d assumed was keeping its value wasn’t and I worked out why very early on, but it still cuased a latent problem.

Stupidly, I’d clicked “Initialise on every entry” on a local view which was wrapped up in a CA Gen batch program.

If I’d had VerifIEr or Model Analyser all those years ago, we could have found that out and fixed it through a proper automated code review.

What’s the evil ? Simply not having enough tools to review and find issues with your code at the time you write it OR not enough testing.

Put simply – tools like Model Analyser and VerifIEr save SOoooooooo much time !

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…..

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!

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 !