Mogwai ER-DesignerNG 1.7-SNAPSHOT available

Mogwai ERDesigner NG is a Java based entity releationship design
tool. It includes the following key features:

* is based on Java and can be run on Windows and Unix systems
* has a powerful WYSIWYG for physical database design
* handles tables, relations, indexes and comments
* supports a central repository for all models ( Model Repository )
* supports subject areas
* supports domains
* supports MySQL, Oracle, DB2(experimental), Microsoft SQLServer,
PostgreSQL and H2
* creates the SQL DDL statements for schema creation
* has an integrated schema version control system
* can generate schema migration scripts for every change
* stores the database definition as XML files for further processing
* can export the database schema as GIF, BMP, JPEG or SVG files
* has an integrated reverse engineering module for existing schemas
* has a build in schema compare feature
* can generate schema documentation as PDF, HTML, RTF and other
formats
* supports schema conversion between different dialects
* it is based on GPL license
* support is available by authors and newsgroups

Also, ERDesignerNG is available as a SQuirreL SQL and as a NetBeans
Plugin. There is also a new feature for OpenXava application skeleton
generation for the loaded database model.

The 1.7-SNAPSHOT release includes the following changes:

* Improved UI response during long time tasks like reverse engineering
and complete compare
* Added support for automatic IZPack installers
* Improved handling of recently used files and last database
connections
* Added support for H2 (Thanks to Thomas Breitkreuz)
* Improved complete compare functionality for indexes
* If there is a duplicate relation name during reverse engineering, a
new unique name is generated
* Added support to Export model to OpenXava
* Bug Fixing 2513135 [ERDesignerNG] Oracle complete compare fails with
date colum
* Bug Fixing 2675526 [ERDesignerNG] Generation of migration script not
possible
* Bug Fixing 2615849 [ERDesignerNG] Wrong dialect is used to
communicate with rep
* Bug Fixing 2504309 [ERDesignerNG] ERdesigner 1.6: problems on exit
* Bug Fixing 2675509 [ERDesignerNG] Oracle RE of indexes fails
* Bug Fixing 2616079 [ERDesignerNG] OnUpdate=Cascade not persisted
* Bug Fixing 2675551 [ERDesignerNG] DB model comparison does not work
* Bug Fixing 2675559 [ERDesignerNG] Clipping labels
* Bug Fixing 2686597 [ERDesignerNG] Used domains are deletable
* Bug Fixing 2686630 [ERDesignerNG] Default value not setable
* Bug Fixing 2686882 [ERDesignerNG] Domains not initialized
* Bug Fixing 2686627 [ERDesignerNG] 'NOT NULL' ist not generated
* Bug Fixing 2675535 [ERDesignerNG] Not possible to edit relations in
subject area
* Bug Fixing 2292224 [ERDesignerNG] Comments cannot be added to
Subject Areas
* Bug Fixing 2735418 [ERDesignerNG] Table content is clipped
* Bug Fixing 2735413 [ERDesignerNG] German umlauts corrupted
* Implemented FR 2581994 [ERDesignerNG] Support for function based
indexes
* Implemented FR 1905364 [ERDesignerNG] Add support for views ( early
alpha )
* Implemented FR 2675641 [ERDesignerNG] ESC Default buttons for
dialogs
* Implemented FR 2686903 [ERDesignerNG] Store main window size
* Implemented FR 2675574 [ERDesignerNG] Resizable dialog windows
* Implemented FR 1889667 [ERDesignerNG] Allow editing of Edge
Waypoints ( right click + ALT )
* Implemented FR 2686546 [ERDesignerNG] Save vs. Save As
* Implemented FR 2169348 [ERDesignerNG] Allow switching of database/
dialect to generated mult. ddls
* Implemented FR 2690714 [ERDesignerNG] Add relation constraint
RESTRICT
* Implemented FR 2714523 [ERDesignerNG] prompt for password before db
operation
* Implemented FR 2504332 [ERDesignerNG] better comments display
* Implemented FR 2711884 [ERDesignerNG] Add support for hidden
relationships
* Implemented FR 2686547 [ERDesignerNG] Export to HTML
* Implemented FR 2220184 [ERDesignerNG] Make documentation available
as JavaHelp
* Implemented FR 2690710 [ERDesignerNG] Start script should switch to
installation directory
* Implemented FR 2725418 [ERDesignerNG] Add support for custom types

Feel free to visit the projects website at
http://mogwai.sourceforge.net for more details.

Regards

Mirko Sertic
Project admin