Re: transforming old models

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Thanks,
Martin

Martin Matula wrote:

> Hi Ramon,
> yes, MDR is ideal for this kind of task. Look at the code of UML2MOF 
> tool for hints on how to do that. It is in the opensource CVS 
> repository under mdr/extras/uml2mof.
> In Main class of this tool you can see how to load and instantiate UML 
> metamodel into MDR and how to load and save XMI files. In Transformer 
> class you can see how you can use the API to navigate models.
> Regards,
> Martin
>
> VEGA-TARANTINO Ramon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an old Entity-Relationship model that I would like to 
>> transform into a UML model. For doing this, my old modeling tool is 
>> able to export the model into a text file.
>>
>> My idea is to parse this text file in order to instanciate java 
>> objects corresponding to each entity and relationship found and then, 
>> write a xmi file corresponding to the model.
>>
>> Is netbeans MDR able to do this? if yes which API should I use in 
>> order to instanciate the right objects and then wirte my xmi file?
>>
>> if this is not the right place to ask this, where can i found this 
>> kind of information?
>> Thanks for helping
>>
>> Ramón
>>
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