Had a great note today from a Salesforce Sales Engineer in Belgium. David wrote:

 (After David, I have one more screen shot.)

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Just wanted to let you know that I’ve spent some time with the new version of the Cloud Converter code you’ve got up on Code Share : It works like a charm and it will be very useful for us and our customers.

I’ve tested it on a local [MS] SQLExpress Server.

Converts nicely to:

I’m sure you’ve seen this in action before but I hadn’t, it’s very cool. Beautiful usage of our Metadata API. The java code is really easy to adapt to any db or table.

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Thanks, David.

This next screen shot shows a few other things — namely, the lookup relationship and long field types.

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I just posted Cloud Converter to Google code.  It’s a bunch of Java code that:

** connects to a dirt bound database you specify — anything with a JDBC connector should work (MySQL, Lotus Notes, Microsoft SQL, Oracle)
** inspects the meta data
** creates a matching object in Force.com
** modifies the default page layout to include all of the fields and creates a custom tab for it
** moves data from the dirt to the cloud

Pretty straightforward.  The "ReadMe.txt" gives more detail.  I’ll be putting together a screen flow shortly.  Questions?  Drop me an email: rcarlberg@modelmetrics.com.

Model Metrics has released this as open source with an MIT License. 

Enjoy!

1/7 Update: This is now on Salesforce.com’s Code Share.