By Peter Bell

Automatic Metabase Generation

Posted At : January 29, 2007 5:27 PM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Application Generation, Active Data Modeling
If you want to generate a metabase (a database designed to store declarative metadata for re-use across multiple applications), it is actually quite easy – you just have to understand the range of potential abstract grammars to support and then write a generalized routine to transform a grammar into a set of related tables . . .

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The Power of Active Data Models

Posted At : January 29, 2007 10:54 AM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Application Generation, Active Data Modeling
As I have discussed before, there are many different ways of storing metadata. You can write scripts, create XML files, draw diagrams or store them in a database. This posting looks at the benefits of storing metadata in a database for extremely high levels of efficient re-use so you really can generate custom applications in minutes, not months . . .

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