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This feature would allow you to select a table from the DB Explorer, drag it onto a visual component, and visualweb would automatically do the following: - Create a JPA Entity for the table - Map the component to the entity This should be immediately runnable with all necessary end-to-end code generated. We should do this in a way that is aligned with the current ability to generate an entity from a database table and with the reference architecture for next-gen web apps that Craig McLanahan is working on
An interim step for this feature would be to support DnD from a JPA Entity. This would require the following two separate steps for the user: - Generate JPA entities from a DB table using the Entity Wizard - Drag the resulting Entity object onto a visual component (not even sure if you can drag objects to a visualweb page today). But really the brass ring here is to get it to work just like it does today with rowsets. We also want JPA to be the default approach for table drag-and-drop, rather than rowsets, which means it needs to be at least as easy to use as the rowset functionality today.
I'm volunteering to work on this feature
won't be implemented in 6.x , at least not by me
if reopened then should be assigned to someone