If anyone wants to work with a model subsystem based on EMF instead of
MDR, the project argouml-emf is already in place for this purpose. The
project doesn't contain any code though.
/Linus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Feldman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: den 29 september 2006 23:23
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [argouml-dev] Eclipse EMF
>
>
> Hi Markus,
>
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 11:36 +0200, Markus Klink wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity?
> >
> > How difficult would it be for us to
> >
> > a) replace MDR with EMF
> > b) to be able to export to EMF
> > c) to support both, aka read/write MOF and EMF based models?
> >
>
>
> > I am a bit worried as the mdr toolkit does not seem to undergo
> > development, and most tools such as AndroMDA and
openarchitectureware
> > walk more and more towards supporting EMF instead of MOF based
models.
>
> Very good question! Sadly, Sun has dropped support for further
> development of MDR. There isn't even a JSR for a JMI to support XMI
> 2.0! No JMI for XMI 2.0 means no MDR for XMI 2.0, which results in
no
> MDR for UML 2.0.
>
> I tried to raise the issue early this year at a Sun Conference with
> James Gosling. I politely tried to point out how the neglect of MDR
was
> impacting so many open source tools, but he didn't seem to care.
> I was careful to inform him that I had been a loyal user of NetBeans
and
> MDR for many years.
>
> Moreover, he didn't seem very happy when I told him that IMHO the
> neglect of MDR and JMI was creating yet another reason for tool
> developers to integrate to the Eclipse platform, and not the NetBeans
> platform. ;-)
>
>
> FYI, I am still using NetBeans, but I will be switching to Eclipse
soon.
> I am really baffled by the way Sun has dropped the ball on this
> one. :-\
>
> As a result, EMF is the defacto standard for UML 2.0 models. I don't
see
> any viable option other than EMF for moving to UML 2.0, which is why
so
> many open source tools are migrating to EMF.
>
>
> cheers,
>
>
> roy
>
>
> p.s.
>
> One possible explanation for Sun's behavior is that Sun is probably
> going to open source a UML tool they acquired a few years ago. They
had
> been selling it as part of Java Enterprise Studio, but the technology
is
> being ported to Java and is in the process of being migrated into the
> NetBeans project.
>
>
>
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