Generating MOLGENIS from scratch

We will generate a new MOLGENIS by the example of a simple Address Book application:

a simple database having “Contacts” entities that each can have zero or more “Addresses”:

1. Create the data model XML
   

Create a new xml file ‘addressbook_db.xml’ in the root of you application. This file will contain the MOLGENIS model. Use the following template:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE molgenis PUBLIC "MOLGENIS 1.0" "http://molgenis.sourceforge.net/dtd/molgenis_v_1_0.dtd">
<molgenis name="addressbook">

</molgenis>

1. Add a “Contact” data type. Data types are called ‘entity’ in MOLGENIS:

   <molgenis name="addressbook">
     <entity name="Contact">
                   
     </entity>
   </molgenis>