Goal

The goal of this project is to provide a library to automate the creation and modification of Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 Cubes. Business Intelligence projects have traditionally a very long development cycle. This project attempts to reduce the cost of one of those components.

Another goal is to make Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 a little bit more approachable by Java Developers.

You may choose to use a subset of this library to only speed up certain parts of the cube development. For example, you may use the library to create the schema, and manually create the dimension and measures.

Design

The core library attempts to map the XMLA 1.1 specification to Java objects via Jibx binding framework. The end goal is a very clean and simple set of pojo's that can be used to programatically construct a cube.

The second component of the library is set of utilities to speed up the creation of the cube. One utility creates a basic cube from provided relational table schema.

Share

If you happen to use this library and develop additional utilities, share them with us. We'll add them to the core library, and give you all the credit and/or blame that's rightfully yours.