System Modeller

Sysmod

Ant Script

Sysmod makes use of Ant in order to generate the code. The Ant Task is called GenerateModelTask. First the sysmod task must be defined. Sysmod supports several generators, although the only one really used to date has been the Java and SQL generators.
<target name="generatedemo" depends="dist">
	<delete dir="gen"/>
	<mkdir dir="gen"/>
	<mkdir dir="gen/java"/>
	<mkdir dir="gen/sql"/>
	<mkdir dir="gen/bin"/>

	<taskdef name="sysmod" classname="net.sourceforge.sysmod.GenerateModelTask"
		classpathref="demolibs"/>

	<sysmod modelXML="demo_model.xml">

		<genclass classname="net.sourceforge.sysmod.generators.JavaGenerator"
			destdir="gen/java" includedir="include/java" ext="java">
			<classproperty name="package" value="net.sourceforge.sysmod.tests"/>
			<classproperty name="baseclass" 
				value="net.sourceforge.sysmod.support.AbstractDataObject"/>
			<classproperty name="jndiname" value="jdbc/sysmod"/>
			<classproperty name="usecache" value="no"/>
			<classproperty name="connectionmethod"
				value="net.sourceforge.sysmod.support.ConnectionFactory.getConnection();"/>
		</genclass>

		<genclass classname="net.sourceforge.sysmod.generators.SQLGenerator"
			destdir="gen/sql" ext="sql">
			<classproperty name="dbtype" value="postgresql"/>
		</genclass>

	</sysmod>

</target>
	
Tag Attribute Description

sysmod modelXML Filename of the sysmod model.

genclass The genclass tag specified a generator.

genclass classname The class name of the Generator to call.

genclass destdir The distination directory to save output to.

genclass includedir The directory for include files.

genclass ext The extension to use for generated files.

classproperty Holds parameters for the Generator.

Property Name Description

package The package that the generated code will be part of.

baseclass The class that the data objects will extend. Usually you will extend from the base class supplied within sysmod.

jndiname The JNDI name used to obtain a connection with the database.

usecache Will you generate code which can cache objects in memory?

connnectionmethod The fully qualified name of the method to obtain connections. Usually you will use the default ConnectionFactory.getConnection() method.