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ERD support for Netbeans

NOTE - This plugin no longer works with NetBeans 6.0, and is not being maintained. If you want E/R tooling for NetBeans, please add your vote to Issue 105075

Introduction

The Goal of this project is visually represent the data model using entity relationships diagrams. Doesn't allows to edit or design E-R diagram. Primary Key

Features

  • E-R diagram can be created from existing database as well as dbschema file
  • using Graph Library 2.0
  • using dbschema file as data model
  • position of entities(Tables) can be save

Types of relationships

  • One and One relationships One to One.
  • One and One relationships One or more to Many.
  • One and One relationships Zero or more to Many.

Icons which represents keys.

  • Primary Key Primary Key.
  • Foreign Key Foreign Key.
  • Foreign Key Primary and Foreign Key.
It looks like the iconts for Foreign Key and Primary and Foreign Key are the same. Wrong file uploaded?

Run and Use!

  • Download E-R module .
  • Install using Module Manager in NetBeans 6.0 (the module requires NetBeans 6.0).
Is this really true? I just tried it on NetBeans 5.5 and I'm able to create and view an ER diagram with no trouble (so far).
To make installation easer the nmb file contains Graph Library classes,this library is supported only by netbeans 6.0
  • Nbm file already contains Graph Library so there is no need to install separately.
  • To create ER-Diagram use _New File ...|Persistence|ER-Diagram - new_erd .
  • As datasource live connection or dbschema file can be used Datasource .
  • Click right on created file, and choose open.

How to Build

  • Check out NetBeans sources using:

cvs -D :pserver:<username>@cvstunnel.czech.sun.com:/cvs co standard_nowww

  • Build NetBeans

Go to NBRootDir/nbbuild directory and run ant build.

  • Build Visual Library

Go to NBRootDir/graph/lib directory and run ant for building the library.

  • Run Netbans

Go to NBRootDir/nbbuild/netbeans/bin directory, run netbeans

  • Check out ERD module

Create a directory somewhere outside of NBRootDir directory tree. Go to the new directory and check out ERD sources using:

cvs -D :pserver:<username>@cvstunnel.czech.sun.com:/cvs co contrib/erd

  • Run ERD Module

Open under netbeans ERD module and run it

Attachments

Oneandone.png Info on Oneandone.png 129 bytes
Oneormore.png Info on Oneormore.png 359 bytes
Zeroormore.png Info on Zeroormore.png 576 bytes
datasource.png Info on datasource.png 29600 bytes
erdnetbeans.png Info on erdnetbeans.png 79630 bytes
key_f.png Info on key_f.png 528 bytes
key_p.png Info on key_p.png 559 bytes
key_pf.png Info on key_pf.png 693 bytes
new_erd.png Info on new_erd.png 40353 bytes
org-netbeans-erdbeans.nbm Info on org-netbeans-erdbeans.nbm 287872 bytes