Re: Re: [mdr-users] How are repositories supposed to be used by modules?

Brian,

many thanks for your work on the SSM/SMN tool. Since we cannot use Rational
for an open source project such as XEMO, we are truly dependent on the
evolution of your tool. Our efforts with MDR have so far had to focus on
design and proof-of-concept prototypes because of the lack of a generally
available concise modeling tools. (You can only use the Rational evaluation
copies so long... ;-)). In the coming months your tool will be of great help
in our modeling efforts...

I will give you more feedback as I have time to test/study it in detail. Has
anyone considered hosting it on netBeans.org as an experimental module?

Cheers,
William Will

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:14 AM
Subject: [mdr-dev] Re: [mdr-users] How are repositories supposed to be used
by modules?


> Holger,
>
> Yes, right now I could use the in-memory representation because I
> re-build the models every time I generate something. But, soon I will be
> be using MDR the way it was meant to be used so that the models stay
> cached in the repository between conversions as long as the input files
> aren't modified.
>
> I wonder how much faster the in-memory representation is? How well does
> it work? Is anybody using it?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> P.S. Holger, William, and others waiting for my tool: I had great
> difficulty finding time to work on in August and early September. I'm
> sorry I didn't email everybody and tell them about the delay. But, I am
> working on it again now, even though I'm supposed to be doing my
> homework. So, if you want to try it out there is a very rudamentary,
> barely tested, and incomplete version of the software and the
> documentation attached to this message. The best thing about this
> version of the tool is that I can _guarentee_ that it can't get any
> slower. I would have included the source code too but I don't feel like
> adding all those licensing headers yet. WARNING: You must have rebuilt
> NetBeans from CVS from less than two hours ago in order for the NBM's to
> work, because a patch I sent in to autoupdate was just integrated into
> the trunk. Even then, you may have to manually restart and/or enable the
> "Simple MOF Notation" module (under "Data Files") after the NBM
> installation (because autoupdate doesn't seem to install the autoload
> modules before the modules that depend on them; that is another patch I
> have to send in).
>
> I hope it isn't a problem to include the MDR jars with it; I guess I
> assume everybody here already has them anyway.
>