Database Schema Manager

Hi, I am working on separating the Schema Manager in MDB into a separate package. The idea is that the new Manager will actually not require MDB anymore. Instead the main part of the manager is handling array structures that represent a schema. These array structures can be build up one by one, merged, compared etc. Also the Manager can call a parser or a writer to read or write a schema. I intent to provide the following parsers: - XML (old parser) - SQL (new) - MDB (old reverse engineering) and the following writers: - XML (new, used to be embedded in the manager) - SQL (new) - MDB (old default behaviour) There are all sorts of other parser and writers possible (someone else needs to decide if they are feasible enough to be implemented) like: - PEAR DB - WDDX - Excel - PDF - etc. Here is my preliminary work on the API: http://www.backendmedia.com/MDB/Manager/ I don't know yet how to name it. Basically the schema manager does not require MDB by default anymore. Actually it is possible to write a writer and/or parser for any database abstraction layer. So possible names are as follows: DB_Manager MDB_Manager DB_Schema_Manager MDB_Schema_Manager ... Regards, Lukas Smith smith@backendmedia.com _______________________________ BackendMedia www.backendmedia.com berlin@backendmedia.com Linn Zwoch Smith GbR Pariser Str. 44 D-10707 Berlin Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07