Tools for reverse engineering an ERD from the database

We were thinking about using Visio as a tool for Reverse Engineering ERD's from our database. Unfortunately, we can't find any good training that goes over this part of the tool in detail.
So, then I started thinking, maybe it's not the best tool, then. Any suggestions on whether this is the tool, or if there's a better alternative?
Thanks
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Hi ,
The Oracle Designer contained in the Oracle Dev Suite 10g can accomplish your requirement...
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Hi there, I need a CASE tool for do reverse engineering to java code. Can somebody recommend me someone?
Regards.

Do you mean a decompiler? There's jode, which I think is at sourceforge.
Do reverse engineering tools really come under the CASE rubric?

JDeveloper capabilities for Reverse Engineering existing instances and data

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Will 10g JDeveloper handle reverse-engineering large 300 table schemas rich with large quantity of indexes, synonyms, & triggers?
And last, how can a listing of the Data Dictionary be extracted /exported in CSV or excel format for review distribution? Via JDeveloper? We have a large distributed development, test, quality, and integration team which prefers to review various elements of schema updates and changes in excel.
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Vicki-
Thanks for the additional info. I was thinking you were most concerned with reverse-engineering existing schemas. I did not realize you were designing new schemas.
When you mention ERDs, are you interested in logical ERDs (as compared to physical tables and foreign keys)? If you are interested in doing pure logical ERD modelling, then Designer is the way to go. It has been years since I worked with Designer, but it has ooodles of capabilities to forward and reverse engineer between databases, physical models, and logical models of schemas. It sounds like you might be using Designer today and are hitting some snags. Is this the case? If so, I suggest you see if Oracle Support or the Designer forum can help you get past the specific Designer issues. The forum for Oracle Designer is here: Designer
Sue mention that JDeveloper does support database modelling. Here is a how-to for JDeveloper 11g that shows how it works:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/obe11jdev/11/db_dev/obe_%20databasedevmt.htm
The how-to is pretty complete showing you forward and reverse engineering capabilities.
A few more minor notes:
1.The JDeveloper schema modelling features work on a physical (not logical) level. In other words, they work on tables not entities.
2.The SQL Developer report features certainly work on "DATA". But, the "DATA" they work on can certainly be the data dictionary data. In other words, I can write a report in SQL Developer that queries all of the column names, column data types for a subset of tables. Then I can export that "DATA" into excel and use it for whatever your downstream needs are. The potential capabilities are practically unlimited.
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