I've done a little reading on ecore/emf but I have to confess any
practical experiements I have done have not got me anywhere.
Is there anyone watching this list who has some experience with EMF to
help us get started?
We must continue to keep up with the OMG. If MDR will not allow this
then we have to investigate the alternatives.
Bob.
On 9/30/06, Linus Tolke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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