Re: [argouml-dev] Compatibility broken with Sinelabore (was Please plan a 0.32.1 release)

Hi Bob,

requesting ArgoUML to break a wellformedness rule is very demanding, but I can understand their situation. The runtime parameter is an option and allows ArgoUML to work correctly out-of-the-box, so such a "hidden" feature is ok with me. Furthermore, it urges Sinelabore to take some action, at least they need to document that option, right? BTW, is there a reason why they can't stick to 0.30.2? Anyway, I'd agree that you offer them the runtime parameter and get their feedback on this. Just my 2 cents.

Thomas

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> Datum: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:26:49 +0000
> Von: Bob Tarling <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: [argouml-dev] Compatibility broken with Sinelabore (was Please plan a 0.32.1 release)

> I'm in two minds about the problem we have with Sinelabore.
> 
> I can't fault Michiels decision to apply a Well-formedness rule but I
> do feel some sympathy for Peter at Sinalbore who has based his
> application on the faulty XMI that we used to generate.
> 
> I wouldn't like anything to delay our 0.32.1 release which is due for
> tomorrow. Please go ahead with that anyway Linus no matter what
> direction this thread takes us.
> 
> Peter has supplied me some XMI from other tools to indicate that these
> tools structure the XMI in the same way as ArgoUML used to. However
> these look to me to be from UML2 tools rather than UML1.4. For UML1.4
> I think Michiel is correct.
> 
> My suggestion would be that we add a runtime argoument to argo such as
> the following
> 
>     java -Dsinelabore=true -jar argouml.jar
> 
> Anyone planning on using the Sinelabore tool can do so with this
> switch and all others will get the correctly formatted XMI.
> 
> I think this should just be a short term work around while Sinelabore
> allow UML1.4 to use context to link the statemachine to its
> class/operation instead. We can't be expected to support these feature
> forever.
> 
> One thing to consider in Sinelabore would be to preprocess the XMI
> with a stylesheet to move any statemachine as it wishes before it does
> its current processing.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Bob
> 
> On 21 February 2011 08:09, Michiel van der Wulp
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 02/20/2011 08:16 PM, Bob Tarling wrote:
> >> Michiel - are you sure about the changes made? It would appear to be
> >> correct to me but I'm no expert in this area.
> >
> > Yes, I am.
> >
> > It took me 4 years before I finally implemented the fix, because I
> > feared consequences like the one we are having now - not because I was
> > unsure about the validity of the defect.
> >
> > The 0.32 version of ArgoUML is setting the initial namespace of the
> > statemachine according a WFR. As a workaround for the problem with the
> > Sinelabore tool, you can move the statemachine and events in the
> > namespace of the class (I did not test this).
> >
> > I located a reference to an old message from Eugenio A. about the
> > subject, mentioning this:
> >
> > «So, a StateMachine is not owned by the class that is its context. The
> > StateMachine is owned by a Package. It just has a relationship to the
> > class.»
> >
> > See: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/argo-dev/message/2028
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Michiel
> >
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