Re: Determining the default metamodel package

Hi,
no, this is not a reliable way of determining the default metamodel 
package. There is no general way of doing it universally. You would need 
to have a catalog of known metamodels and their default packages and for 
your own metamodels you could create a custom tag that you could use to 
decorate your metamodels' default packages so that your tool can 
recognize them automatically.
Martin

Jörn Guy Süß wrote:

> Hallo!
> To simplify work with a JMI-based software I would like to determine the name of the metamodel package which should be instanciated for a given metamodel distributed as XMI-File. In UML-Versions this package is called UML and in the MOF it is called model.
> These package reside on the top level of the M2 next to other packages like "Core" or "CorbaIdlTypes" and there does not seem to be a distinction. I have noticed that a tag "org.omg.xmi.namespace=UML" is attached to the top-level package in the xmi-File. Does anybody know whether this is reliable / required and leads to the respective package? How would I check such a tag programmatically? Any help is very welcome.
> Regards,
> Jörn Guy Süß
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