[Fwd: Couple questions about possibilities of MDR JDBC persistance]

Dragan Djuric <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:47:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.mdr.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, Martin

   I am a post-graduate student(working towards Masters degree in 
Information Systems). A part of my thesis includes
creation of MOF-based Ontology Language metamodel and using MDR for its 
manipulation, storage, etc. I already created
a simple framework that enables easy usage of MDR repository for any 
metamodel (as a set of abstract classes that only need
a simple metamodel-specific class that implements a few trivial methods, 
such as getMetamodelName() etc.). When i finish
the documentation for it (some guide, JUnit tests etc.) and test it, I 
can publish it over netbeans mdr site
(if you are interested), since I find that it can be useful at least as 
a sample.
   Beside that, I should investigate the possibilities for database 
storage for MDR (via JDBC) for one of examinations.
It includes some "project" and some degree of implementation, depending 
on available time (I doubt that I can do it alone
in the time that I have, but I don't need to do "full" JDBC persistance, 
just to specify it and implement some parts).
Since the JDBC persistance implementation is only mentioned at this site 
I don't have much to start with. I know how to
USE MDR (MDR API) but I don't have any dovumentation other than source 
code. I understand that I must go through the source
to understand how MDR persistance works, but I would be grateful if you 
can provide me some "explanatory" documentation, ie.
description of the most important classes, some guide, something that I 
can start with. I believe that such things exist,
it is impossible that people at Sun holds the projects only in their 
heads :). If such documentation is not allowed to be published, I will 
understand that, I would only ask you to provide me some info to start 
with this(source is like a forest and i must find a tree to start with).

Regards,
Dragan.


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