Chapter 9 Creating J2EE Applications for IBM WebSphere 5.0

PowerDesigner

PowerDesigner supports UML object modeling and data modeling. It is interesting for customers to use the same tool to define objects, database schema, O/R mapping and to generate EJBs. PowerDesigner supports O/R mapping definition and EJB generation. It fully supports the EJB 2.0 specification. It can support any application server supporting EJB 2.0.

With PowerDesigner, you can:

• Define EJBs using the UML Class Diagram and Component Diagram.
• Generate or reverse engineer a database using the Physical Data Model (PDM).
• Define O/R mapping.
• Create CMP EJBs, BMP EJBs, Session Beans and Message Driven Beans.
• Generate EJB source code, deployment descriptor.
• Generate application server specific descriptor.
• Compile Java code and generate the EJB JAR file.
• Deploy EJBs into an application server.
• Use an IDE to compile and deploy.
• Customize the EJB code generator and the application server support.

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