Meta model code generation

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# Overview

In the previous chapter, we have seen how to use the Factory in order to create Queries and fetch data in Results. The strength of jOOQ not only lies in its object-oriented Query model, but also in the fact that Java source code is generated from your database schema into the META data model. jOOQ follows the paradigm, that your database comes first (see also home page). This means that you should not modify generated source code, but only adapt entities in your database. Every change in your database is reflected in a corresponding change in your generated meta-model.

Artefacts, such as tables, views, user defined types, sequences, stored procedures, packages have a corresponding artefact in Java.

# Table of contents

1. Configuration and setup of the generator
2. Advanced generator configuration
3. The schema, top-level generated artefact
4. Tables, views and their records
5. Procedures and packages
6. UDT's including ARRAY and ENUM types
7. Sequences and Serials