Could Roo support these two features？

[drhades]

1 oracle spatial
2 non-structure flat database

Could Roo support them natively?
Or, we can get help from some add-ons?

I haven't understant roo deeply, and hope to get some guidance.
Thanks.

[Alan Stewart]

Well for 2. are you referring no-sql databases? If so, we support the Google App Engine

[drhades]

Thanks for your reply.

We will try and investigate GAE later.

Well for 2. are you referring no-sql databases? If so, we support the Google App Engine

And, is there some guidance to add support for Oracle Spatial?

[chrismarx]

I'd also like to know the answer to this, right now, upon db reverse enginnering, roo creates String type columns for the oracle Geometry type, and I have to manually push in this field and update its type to JGeometry-

[Alan Stewart]

DBRE uses the java.sql.DatabaseMetadata object from the Oracle driver to determine column types. If the support is not there in the driver for the Oracle Geometry type, then the answer would be no.

[rmueller]

Perhaps you could use Hibernate Spatial?

[Alan Stewart]

How would Hibernate Spacial work with JDBC drivers of the various relational databases that DBRE uses to get db metadata from? On the 'forward' direction, Roo needs to work with EclipeLink, OpenJPA, and other jpa implememtations as well.
Alan