Re: Copy, paste, import ?

Martin Matula <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:22:22 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.mdr.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Well, I would be very happy to do that. But we do not have resources to 
implement it. If you are willing to do it yourself, I will be happy to 
grant you a developer role in MDR project. :)
Martin

Anders W. Tell wrote:
> What do you think about making copy,paste,import and undo part of core 
> MDR distribution ?
> 
> /anders
> 
> Martin Matula wrote:
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>> If you want this to work independently of the metamodel, you will need 
>> to use reflective API and explore metaobjects of the objects that are 
>> copied, read values of all the attributes, references and recreate 
>> them in the target model. Eventually you could use XMI reader and XMI 
>> writer if you want to copy whole models (reader can be passed to 
>> writer as ContentHandler, which will cause that writer will read data 
>> from one extent and send events to reader, which will create those 
>> data in another extent).
>> Martin
>>
>> Anders W. Tell wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Before I go on holiday Im trowing away yet another question.
>>>
>>> How simple is it to create functionality to support copy, paste and 
>>> import of JMI/MOF artifact  from one MDR model to another MDR based 
>>> model?
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> /anders
>>>
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