Driven by a post from Lewis about “OSDM: Rerverse Engineer A Schema“, I dared my luck to play with Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler (OSDM), trying to see if it understands the XML database realm off doing things. It doesn’t understands it…at least, yet. I used the early adopter release 1.5.1 (build 518).
I wonder if it is reasonable that I am disappointed; In the long run the “XDB” schema that I used to reverse engineer isn’t relational but (at least) object-relational. Most of the object relational issues, OSDM understands, but not the theory behind XMLType tables. I tried it multiple times, in the end, even the “secondary tables” and “spatial properties” option you can check during the reverse enginering option.