Re: [mdr-users] Guidance for Use of MDR

bhakti daftardar wrote:

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> Respected Sir/Madam
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> i am working on a project of developing a tool which
> calulates software metric of an UML Diagram and I am planning to use 
> XMI file
> containing the UML Diagram as a input to my tool. With the help of case
> tools i am able to get the XMI's. Now I have to parse the XMI and load the
> available info in a Object Model (which acts as a repository for my tool).
> I had 2 options
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> FIRST i make my own object model and load it using SAX parser. But 
> creating and
> managing such a huge Model(MODEL SHOULD BE M2 layer of the 4 layers of MOF
> Architecture) for almost 9 uml diagrams (if i limit my self to uml 1.3 
> or uml
> 1.4) seems to be a difficult and cumbersome task.
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> So i thought of 2nd option of using already existing repostory as 
> Poseidon is
> using. Poseidon is using NetBeans MDR as there metadata repository. I 
> downloaded
> Netbeans 3.5.1 updated it for MDR and tried to use it. I drew small 
> sample class
> diagram in all above three UML Case Tools and exported the xmi out of 
> it. MDR
> requires XMI[MOF] format which is given by only Enterprise Architect .

If you export XMI from Poseidon and select in a checkbox in the export 
dialog TO NOT EXPORT DIAGRAMS, the resulting XMI is surely importable by 
MDR.

> So i
> exported XMI[MOF 1.4] format from enterprise Architect and imported it 
> in MDR

How exactly you imported the model ?
Did you import UML metamodel at first ?

Richard Ciglansky

> but the results which i was expecting i.e i will get M2 layer i didn't 
> get M2
> layer instead i got just 3 classes of i think M3 layer which i am not 
> able to
> use any how as there are no tutorials or examples on how to use the 
> JMI API
> created by MDR Explorer.
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