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

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Matula [mailto:[email protected]] 

-- CUT -- 

> >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've already try to use the tools with UML that created by Poseidon, but it
isn't success.

> >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?

Actually, the most feature that I need is model management using XMI. I
don't really need the MDR repository (it's kind of bonus :) ). Since the
only tools that comfort with MOF, XMI, JMI is MDR, then I interested to look
into it. But I'll prefer maturity than standardization, so if MDR is
actually not so mature, I'll choose EMF (which sadly doesn't comfort MOF and
JMI :( ).

Regards,
Nanda Firdausi