Chapter 7 Creating J2EE Applications for IBM WebSphere 5.0

PowerDesigner

PowerDesigner supports UML object modeling and data modeling. It is useful for developers 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 supports the EJB 2.0 specification, and can support any application server supporting EJB 2.0.

With PowerDesigner, you can:

• Define EJBs using UML class diagrams and component diagrams.
• Generate or reverse engineer a database using a Physical Data Model (PDM).
• Define O/R mapping.
• Create CMP EJBs, BMP EJBs, Session Beans and Message Driven Beans.
• Generate EJB source code, deployment descriptors.
• Generate application server specific descriptors.
• 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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