Re: [mdr-users] NetBeans MDR and ARIS UML Designer

What do you mean by saying that MDR does not resolve type reference? 
Does it throw an exception? What exception? Could you provide a stacktrace?
I was not able to catch what exactly you modified in the XMI file to 
make it work.
Martin

[email protected] wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm (still...) quite new to NetBeans MDR, so please excuse any silly
>questions...
>
>I'm using NetBeans in the context of AndroMDA (www.andromda.org) and ARIS
>UML Designer. I would like to use an AndroMDA Cartridge (Bpm4Struts) witch
>requires to provide a tagged value for a use case with a certain
>stereotype.
>
>So the XMI-Export of ARIS look something like this:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
><XMI xmi.version="1.1" xmlns:UML="//org.omg/UML/1.4">
>  ...
>  <XMI.content>
>    <UML:Model name="Bpm4Struts" xmi.id="ID.b6----4-----p--" xmi.uuid
>="ID.2d196eb0-995d-11d9-1068-00e000f95533">
>      <UML:Namespace.ownedElement>
>      ...
>            <UML:Stereotype name="FrontEndUseCase" xmi.id
>="ID.ls----4-----p--" xmi.uuid="ID.545a57d0-995f-11d9-1068-00e000f95533"
>isSpecification="false" namespace="ID.bi----4-----p--" isRoot="false"
>isLeaf="false" isAbstract="false">
>
><UML:Stereotype.baseClass>UML::behavioralelements::usecases::UseCase</UML:Stereotype.baseClass>
>              <UML:Stereotype.definedTag>
>                <UML:TagDefinition xmi.idref="ID.2o----5-----p--">
>                </UML:TagDefinition>
>              </UML:Stereotype.definedTag>
>            </UML:Stereotype>
>            ...
>                    <UML:UseCase name="Ticketreservation" xmi.id
>="ID.9-----6-----p--" xmi.uuid="ID.e59a3a81-9b71-11d9-1068-00e000f95533"
>isSpecification="false" namespace="ID.dz----4-----p--" isRoot="false"
>isLeaf="false" isAbstract="false">
>                      <UML:ModelElement.stereotype>
>                        <UML:Stereotype xmi.idref="ID.ls----4-----p--"/>
>                      </UML:ModelElement.stereotype>
>                      <UML:ModelElement.taggedValue>
>                        <UML:TaggedValue xmi.id="ID.10----6-----p--"
>xmi.uuid="ID.fd0f7a40-9b71-11d9-1068-00e000f95533" type
>="ID.2o----5-----p--">
>
><UML:TaggedValue.dataValue>TicketreservationGraph</UML:TaggedValue.dataValue>
>                        </UML:TaggedValue>
>                      </UML:ModelElement.taggedValue>
>                    </UML:UseCase>
>            ...
>      </UML:Namespace.ownedElement>
>    </UML:Model>
>  </XMI.content>
></XMI>
>
>So the Use Case "Ticketreservation" has the stereotype "FrontEndUseCase"
>referenced via xmi.idref="ID.ls----4-----p--" and a tagged value
>"TicketreservationGraph" of type "@andromda.struts.usecase.activity",
>referenced via type="ID.2o----5-----p--".
>
>Now the problem seems to be that the type reference isn't resolved by MDR.
>As soon as I patch the XMI-File produced by ARIS like this:
>
><UML:UseCase name="Ticketreservation" xmi.id="ID.9-----6-----p--" xmi.uuid
>="ID.e59a3a81-9b71-11d9-1068-00e000f95533" isSpecification="false"
>namespace="ID.dz----4-----p--" isRoot="false" isLeaf="false" isAbstract
>="false">
>  <UML:ModelElement.stereotype>
>    <UML:Stereotype xmi.idref="ID.ls----4-----p--"/>
>  </UML:ModelElement.stereotype>
>  <UML:ModelElement.taggedValue>
>    <UML:TaggedValue xmi.id="ID.10----6-----p--" name="
>@andromda.struts.usecase.activity" xmi.uuid
>="ID.fd0f7a40-9b71-11d9-1068-00e000f95533" type="ID.2o----5-----p--">
>
><UML:TaggedValue.dataValue>TicketreservationGraph</UML:TaggedValue.dataValue>
>    </UML:TaggedValue>
>  </UML:ModelElement.taggedValue>
></UML:UseCase>
>
>the further processing by AndroMDA works fine.
>
>Is the anyone who can confirm this?
>Is there any way to "see" the content of the MDR after it reads in an
>XMI-File? I think there was a MDR Browser as a NetBeans Plugin, but it
>seems that this doesn't work with NetBeans 4 anymore...
>
>Any help would be very welcome...
>
>Regards
>Stefan
>
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