Re: [mdr-users] Useable repository data access/visualization tools

Martin Matula wrote:

> Hi Adam,
> 
> Adam wrote:
> 
>> Dear All,
>>
>> A) Is the repository explorer now dead & never coming back or is it 
>> simply being reweritten to use the new NetBeans APIS?
> 
> 
> Currently the MDR explorer is not being rewritten, since the API it was 
> built on is still not final and there are currently no resources to do a 
> complete rewrite to something else. There may be some people who are 
> experimenting with MDR and wrote their own MDR explorer. It should not 
> be that hard to write some visualization tool on top of the JMI API.
> 
>>
>> B) Some of my HL7 tooling people are wondering if the Btree engine/the 
>> MDR can be inspected in it's abscence & if so how.
> 
> 
> One can easily write some kind of a "dump" engine, that walks the 
> content of the MDR using JMI and prints it to a file.
> Either using the reflective API (by traversing 
> RefPackage.refAllPackages(), refAllAssociations(), refAllClasses() and 
> RefClass.refAllOfClass()), or using APIs specific to a particular 
> metamodel.
> Regards,
> Martin
> 

Again thanks. We're in the process of finalizing our requirements vs 
what's already in existence (I have a deep love of reuse).

If we can do a MIF<>MOF profile then the MDR looks good.

Now I just need to talk to the Eclipse people wrt EMF<>(MIF as)MOF.

Possibly just GEF on top of the MDR.

Adam