Dear Tom, thank you for your posting to the migration case's forum and your feedback. We received a quite high number of submissions for this case, so you might still want to join us in Malaga ;-)
Best regards, Steffen 2010/5/7 Tom Morris <[email protected]>: > Thanks very much for the invitation, Steffen. I doubt I'll make it to > Malaga, but I'd be happy to support this effort in any way possible > and would *love* to see a good solution to the UML 1.4 to UML 2.2 > migration problem come out of the workshop. In my opinion, of the > OMG's many failings with regard to UML, lack of backward compatibilty > between versions is one of the biggest. Any standards group that > finds it necessary to release a spec which is incompatible should > consider it a required part of the work to also release a reference > implementation of a migration tool. > > It's great to see that ArgoUML was used as a basis for the case study > (thank you Rose et al from the University of York!). I'm hopeful that > any solutions will be made available in open source form and will be > directly usable by ArgoUML and ArgoEclipse as at least a starting > point for the needed UML 2.x migration facility. > > I've talked to Pieter in the past about building on some of the > earlier ATLAS based metamodel migration work, but haven't really done > anything concrete from an implementation point of view, so I doubt > I'll have a solution of my own, but will anxiously look forward to > what others come up with. > > I hope that the submissions will take on the "extension" of dealing > with the XMI versions. In the real world, that is how these models > are exchanged. It's an interesting academic exercise to look at > migrations in the abstract, but it won't be directly useful to anyone > without including the XMI component. On the other hand, I see > migrating the graphics as an orthogonal task. Since the OMG has never > standardized the graphics (look, a graphical modeling language with no > specification for the graphics!), every tool is going to have a > different implementation anyway. In the Argo case, the graphics will > be unchanged during the UML 1.4 to UML 2.x upgrade. > > Tom > > p.s. If anyone's interested in the original ArgoUML project that they > are being asked to migrate, it's available at > http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~louis/ttc/ > ------------------------------------------------------ http://argouml.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=450&dsMessageId=2612242 To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [[email protected]]. To be allowed to post to the list contact the mailing list moderator, email: [[email protected]]
