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We do it for some things. As one if forced to support more and different target hosting environments, one does it more. For example, we do: 1. XML model of metadata of databases. Then generate the scripts to create tables for different database vendors. This has some definite advantages. 2. Use metadata collectors (just a db) that gets metadata from the application plus human annotation interface. Then generate ERDs for customers that like these with all the usual web page navigation and popup magic using a combination of script, HTML and VML. Very popular item it turns out. Intelligence aside, a report is a report is a report. I could make the second one a web service but there is no point really. There is nothing inherently dynamic or frequent about them. Just push the button for every version of the product after the metadatabase is updated, and generate all of the little mini-apps. Old school. len From: Hunsberger, Peter [mailto:Peter.Hunsberger@S...] It's an after the fact rationalization, but; that's seems partly why we have a metadata model that's not coded directly in XML: you want to be free to produce multiple model representations as needed... > Anyway, from the answers, I see that yes indeed we are far > away from it... Sigh, ain't it the truth! Peter Hunsberger
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