Yes, for the most part. The unique key could be part of a primary key class, but not all of the time. It could also be a foreign key. The value would always be a long but there are other operations that I want to associate with these specific column types.
I found the converters ( com.ibm.vap.converters.VapAbstractConverter ), and was able to successfully create one of these to do what I wanted. It all worked perfectly, however, in looking at the deployment files I am rather frightened. I am
testing ways of doing things in Websphere Application Developer Studio, but actual development will be done in Eclipse and XDoclet. So I need to figure out how to get all of this stuff copied over. The mapxmi file is one that I have no idea how to do, or if it can even be generated, which would mean I I have to maintain this file by hand. This is fine for 1 table, but daunting for 100 tables. I also need to figure out what all the ibm specific files contain, the information generated from WSADS is rather cryptic.
I think I am just thinking out loud here, I guess my question now is if the Converter concept is IBM specific, is there a way to do this that will work in other application servers. Of, course any other pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again!
Travis Zimmerman