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I will give it a shot - but not today ;-)
I additionally told my prof to order the to AW eclipse books (one is about EMF, and he is getting the books for free).
if you want you can download the following IBM redbook, which deals with EMF.
~ -> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg246302.pdf
regards
daniel s. haischt
Matthias Bohlen wrote:
| Hi Daniel, | | thanks for the link - I read the interview, and I think it might be a | good idea to give EMF a try. | | Cheers... | Matthias | | |>-----Original Message----- |>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf |>Of Daniel S. Haischt |>Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:17 PM |>To: Matthias Bohlen |>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>Subject: Re: [Andromda-user] Re: What exactly is EMF? |> |> |>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |>ooppsss, forgot to paste the link: |> |>http://www.codegeneration.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId= |>38&PHPSESSID=486dd711535b0c474ace05c9a2f1128a |> |>Daniel S. Haischt wrote: |> |>| did you read this interview? especially question three? |>| |>| regards |>| |>| daniel s. haischt |>| |>| Daniel S. Haischt wrote: |>| | hello, |>| | |>| | first of all my statement about EMF beeing an UML subset |>is based on |>| | an email thread with one of the Omondo EclipseUML developers. |>| | |>| | at that time I was asking them whether it would be possible to |>| | import an existing UML model into the EMF ecore framework. |>| | |>| | read below ... |>| | |>| | -----8<-----------8<----------8<-----------8<-------8<------- |>| | |>| | >I thought it is _just_ possible to import models to EMF |> >> from |>| | either: >> |>| | >> ~ - a XML Schema file |>| | >> ~ - a ecore model |>| | >> ~ - a rational rose project |>| | >> ~ - existing Java classes with some special javadoc |>| | >> ~ comments. |>| | >> |>| | >> is it possible import XMI exports into an EMF project? |>| | |>| | If you mean from UML XMI to EML ecore, you cannot complete do it |>| | since |>| the |>| | EMF ecore is subset of UML. |>| | |>| | ----->8----------->8---------->8----------->8------->8------- |>| | |>| | possibly I did answer the wrong question ... |>| | |>| | Matthias Bohlen wrote: |>| | |>| |> Hi Daniel, |>| |> |>| |> sorry for the long response delay. You shocked me with that |>| |> statement: |>| |> |>| |> |>| |>> do you mean I should first try to import an UML model |>(for example |>| |>> an XMI export containing an UML model) into EMF. |>| |>> |>| |>> if yes, there is some kinda misconception - EMF is only an UML |>| |>> subset, so you can't exactly map an UML model to an EMF |>model ... |>| |> |>| |> |>| |> |>| |> Well, I hope that EMF is *not* a subset of UML but a |>subset of MOF. |>| |> If it were a subset of UML, it could only process UML |>models. If it |>| |> were a subset of MOF, it could process models based on any |>| |> metamodel that can be expressed in EMF. |>| | |>| | |>| | I already read the below statement about ecore beeing a |>MOF subset. |>| | |>| |> |>| |> On the web page |>| |> |>http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextools.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/e |>mf-home/do |>| |> cs/overview.html |>| |> it says: |>| |> |>| |> "For those of you that are familiar with OMG (Object Management |>| |> Group) MOF (Meta Object Facility), you may be wondering how EMF |>| |> relates to it. Actually, EMF started out as an implementation of |>| |> the MOF specification but evolved from there based on the |>| |> experience we gained from implementing a large set of |>tools using |>| |> it. EMF can be thought of as a highly efficient Java |>implementation |>| |> of a core subset of the MOF API. However, to avoid any |>confusion, |>| |> the MOF-like core meta model in EMF is called Ecore instead of |>| |> MOF." |>| |> |>| |> This sounds promising. I think it would be worthwhile to really |>| |> understand what EMF is and try to load a UML 1.4 |>metamodel into it, |>| |> followed by a UML 1.4 model. If this fails, you can forget about |>| |> any effort to make it work with AndroMDA because |>AndroMDA needs a |>| |> metadata repository, not a UML model repository. |>| |> |>| |> What do you think? Could you try to verify that EMF can |>do similar |>| |> things as MOF and process arbitrary metamodels? |>| | |>| | |>| | I am definitely interested into EMF and Eclipse UML2. but |>I can't do |>| | any investigations this week. maybe next week I will have |>some time |>| | to do any investigations on this subject. hope that is ok. |>| | |>| | regards |>| | |>| | daniel s. haischt |>| | |>| |>| |>| -- |>| mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>| web: http://www.daniel.stefan.haischt.name/ |> |>- ------------------------------------------------------- |>SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. |>Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with |>a free DVD software kit from IBM. 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