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So here's the plan..... take ~25K records of substances from PubChem (an online database) and use JAXB to create java bindings for them. Then create models and migrations and a mapping to put it in a database, then use ActiveScaffold to provide the CRUD....in (J)Ruby. I should be able to demo this in 1/2 hour or so... after I've written a few pieces of code -- like to create my models and/or migrations for me.

At this point, reality has stepped in...... The milano JAXB explorer/code generator is choking on the pubchem.xsd -- it's complaining that property names are being used more than once. So tomorrow I guess I will try another route. I'll try running the compiler outside of milano first, then if that fails, I'll try another route; I'll look at using rexml to parse it.

I'm thinking that this may end up turning into a new plugin -- ruxbin I think I'll call it. And maybe have a stuffed bear for its mascot.