Re: [mdr-users] Re: Repository Questions

Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:40:00 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.mdr.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Adam,

	Not yet. Our initial plan was to code a generic MOF-based version 
control system. However, it is not that easy. For this reason we decided 
to focus first on UML and then try to generalise to any MOF metamodel.

	Leo

Adam wrote:
> Leonardo Gresta Paulino Murta wrote:
> 
>> Hi Adam,
>>    
>>
>>> I'm wondering if it would be best to do the shared repository via 
>>> some sort of appserver/webservice.
>>>
>>> How would you look at doing a central repository for multiple users? 
>>> Send in the XMI via a webservice, compare to the central repo xmi for 
>>> that extend, have a "merge" jsp page, & then inject the merged xmi as 
>>> the new extent?
>>>
>>> I was thinking of something like:
>>>
>>> http://pi.informatik.uni-siegen.de/pi/fujaba/difftoolsuite/index.html
>>
>>
>>
>>     Nice tool! We have coded a prototype that may be seen as a 
>> complementary tool of yours. It privedes versioning support for UML 
>> models and uses MDR as an underlying repository...
>>
>> http://reuse.cos.ufrj.br/prometeus/publicacoes/umlvcs-cr.pdf
>>
>>     Leo
>>
> BTW would this work with non-UML but still MOF & XMI files?
> 
> i.e. we are looking to map our "MIF" to the OMG "MOF" as a peer of UML 
> rather than as a child of it.
> 
> Adam
> 
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