Re: MDR Stand-alone

Martin, thanks again you've been very supportive! ;)
I do not intend to use the uml2mof tool at all, i'm
just "reverse engeneering" it to figure out how to use
the mdr stand-alone. 
What's the best learning path? As matter of fact i
just need parse XMI files.
Thanks again

ps: Let me know if i'm in the wrong maillist!

--- Martin Matula <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Joao Paulo Ferreira wrote:
> > 1-Why i can convert (uml2mof) the poseidon model
> > example that comes with the tool, even if i change
> it?
> > But i cannot convert if i start a new Poseidon
> > project. One clue i have is the <<metamodel>>
> > Stereotype in all packages... what if i need
> classes
> > outside packages? I've try to use the
> <<metamodel>> in
> > the hole model, the uml2mof gives some warnings
> but, 
> > apparently, it converts ok.
> 
> According to MOF constraints, everything but a
> package needs to have a 
> container. So only packages do not need to have
> containers. Given that, 
> it is clear, that transitively everything in MOF
> needs to be contained 
> in a package or needs to be the package itself. So
> that's why you need 
> to create your models in such a way that all the
> classes are contained 
> in a MOF package. Now according to MOF profile 
> (http://mdr.netbeans.org/uml2mof/profile.html), MOF
> package can be 
> represented in UML using either UML Model or UML
> Package with 
> <<metamodel>> stereotype.
> If you realize the above, it should be clear to you
> why it works the way 
> you describe.
> BTW, why do you need UML2MOF tool? From your second
> question it seems to 
> me that you do not need to convert UML models to
> MOF. You can generate 
> the code from the UML models directly (by accessing
> them in a similar 
> way as the UML2MOF tool).
> 
> > 2-I'm trying to use the mdr in my master's
> project, a
> > kind of Code and Interface generation tool, the
> idea
> > is to generate code and web interfaces based on
> UML
> > models. So the role of the mdr will be parse the
> XMI
> > 1.2 (UML, like the poseidon ones) and give me the
> > models objects i.e: Classes, Packages, and so
> on... My
> > question is: i'm i on the right way? MDR can do
> this
> > for me?
> 
> Absolutely. You can use MDR to parse the XMI
> exported from the UML tool, 
> then traverse through the model using JMI API
> generated from UML 
> metamodel and generate the code.
> Regards,
> Martin
> 


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