ERMaster

A fork of ERMaster. Faster, Better, VCS-friendly.

Original version is http://ermaster.sourceforge.net

ERMaster is GUI editor for ER diagram.
It runs as Eclipse plug-in.
It can be done graphically to making ER diagram, printing ER diagram, exporting the DDL from ER diagram, etc. .
Moreover, importing from DB, management of the group, and the historical management, etc. are supported.

Install

1. Install Eclipse

Package: Eclipse IDE for Java Developers

2. Install PDE plug-in

Plug-in name: Eclipse PDE Plug-in Developer Resources

3. Install ermasterr

Update Site:

https://thinkgem.github.io/ermasterr/updatesite

or

Copy the contents of the org.insightech.er_x.y.z.jar latest version to the dropins folder located in the root of your Eclipse installation.

Directory tree example:

your_eclipse_install_dir/
└── dropins/
    └── ermasterr/
        └── eclipse/
            └── plugins/
                └── org.insightech.er_x.y.z.jar

or put jar file to dropins directly.

your_eclipse_install_dir/
└── dropins/
    └── org.insightech.er_x.y.z.jar

Features

Faster

• ermasterr prevented a increase of the drawing time by getting rid of tabs of each category and skipping expensive initialization for each category.

Better

• ermasterr has fixed the issue that erdiagram data file size becomes gigantic in sometimes by writing a large amount of same xml tags. (https://sourceforge.net/p/ermaster/bugs/119/)

VCS-friendly

• ermasterr can write git-mergable erdiagram data as far as possible. (https://sourceforge.net/p/ermaster/feature-requests/104/)

Release

1. Open file /META-INF/MAINIFEST.MF Mobify Version.
2. File -> Export -> Plug-in Development -> Deployable plug-ins and fragments -> Select org.insightech.er.
3. Open file /features/feature.xml Mobify Version.
4. File -> Export -> Plug-in Development -> Deployable features.
5. Open /updatesite/site.xml -> Add Feature new version and right-click Remove old version

License

Apache License V2.0