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30Jan/104

Eclipse ER Modelling(ERD) Plugin – ERMaster

Last week i need to design a schema for a new project at work. And my client wants us to use all open source tools. Eclipse being our IDE i had spent some time finding good Eclipse plugin for ER Modelling.

After trying about 4 to 6 plugins and reading about there features, I found that ERMaster is best available plugin for the ER Modelling. Here are some of the features that ERMaster supports.

  • Supports all primary databases (Oracle, MySQL and PostGreSQL)
  • Ability to import existing database (Reverse Engineering)
  • Export to various formats (Java, Excel, PNG and HTML)
  • DDL generation
  • Physical and Logical View
  • Group Management and History Management

Installation steps can be found here

Sample ER

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  1. Hi

    I checked it out and it looks great…

    But, I cannot get the Java code export to work.

    Maybe I am doing something wrong or I have not set something up correctly.

    Any ideas?

    I’m on Mac OSX.

  2. @Lyndon
    I’d probably start by getting a real computer (lol)

  3. Very cool tool, however useless on OS X as the Export to Java doesn’t seem to work when you “Ok” to make it go…


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