I don't need an O/R mapper right now, I only need to document the model. I guess I have try try and get it done with Umbrello then... <div>On 8/30/06, Kristian Rink <<a href="mailto:kristian@zimmer428.net">kristian@zimmer428.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:51:27 +0200 schrieb "Sylvain Girard" <<a href="mailto:girard.sylvain@gmail.com">girard.sylvain@gmail.com</a>>: > data modelling as in RDBMS modelling :) UML modelling tools usually > aren't equipped for data modelling, since UML 1.0 doesn't define > RDBMS modelling... Indeed. :) I don't know whether this is likely to change with UML 2.0, but somehow I doubt it - basically, UML is built around the idea of object-oriented design and thus drastically different from relational design as used in RDBMS modelling. To point your way somewhere else: There hardly are _any_ real usable (open-source) RDBMS design tools out there right now, but there are wagonloads of O/R mapping frameworks to persist your objects to some (relational) database while freeing you of the need to manually craft table definitions... Just an idea. ;) However, while finishing my diploma thesis, I excessively used DBDesigner ( <a href="http://fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/">http://fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/</a> ) which is available for both Windows and Linux, but I had to run the Windows version using wine as the Linux version seems to be way harder to get started using a recent distribution... > Then I found something about Alzabo, but that seems to be some sort of > plugin for god knows what. IIRC, Alzabo basically _is_ an O/R mapper built in/for Perl. ;) Cheers, Kris - -- Kristian Rink * <a href="http://zimmer428.net">http://zimmer428.net</a> * jab: <a href="mailto:kawazu@jabber.ccc.de"> kawazu@jabber.ccc.de</a> icq: 48874445 * fon: ++49 176 2447 2771 "One dreaming alone, it will be only a dream; many dreaming together is the beginning of a new reality." (Hundertwasser) </blockquote> </div> -- Best regards, Sylvain Girard Consultant Valoris NV <a href="mailto:girard.sylvain@gmail.com">girard.sylvain@gmail.com</a> <a href="http://www.valoris.com">www.valoris.com </a> +32486282435