Re: [mdr-users] Suggested way to use MDR

Hi,

Nanda Firdausi wrote:

>Hello MDR people,
>
>I'm very new in MDR and have several questions about the best way to play
>around with this tool.
>I know that Netbeans 4++ doesn't have MDR explorer, so I ask you guys
>whether it is preferable to:
>
>1. Use Netbeans 3.5.2 or something below 4 that still have MDR Explorer
>2. Use MDR tool for Ant
>3. Or is there any other way than I don't see it yet?
>  
>
It depends on what your use-case it. If you want to just play with MDR 
to get more familar with MOF and with the features the MDR offers, you 
should probably first try the visual stuff (MDR Explorer) available in 
NB 3.5.1.
If you want to try to build your own application that uses MDR, you 
should probably start by looking at the uml2mof application that uses 
MDR internally (see http://mdr.netbeans.org/uml2mof).

>I don't really know the status of MDR code, is the development still doing
>fine and are there big progress? (something like going to support XMI 2.0
>and other new standards). I'm very curious about this since the website
>seems so many behind so I don't know anything new about the development.
>  
>
We have been in process of maintaining MDR for more than a year and 
building some functionality in NetBeans that makes use of it. So we did 
not do any major changes. This is also because MDR was more or less done 
- it implements the latest adopted and finalized standards.

>And maybe you can give suggestion whether it's much preferable to use other
>model tools like EMF from Eclipse or anything else. Actually, I looked MDR
>at first glance because it follow standards, but I really don't see the
>development progress...
>  
>
What usage of MDR are you interested in particularily?
Martin