RE: [mdr-users] RE: Problems with diff file

Sorry the link I sent to the UML 2.1 XSD file was wrong: it should be:

http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/06-04-05=20

Pete

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> From: Pete Rivett=20
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:21 PM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [mdr-users] RE: Problems with diff file
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> Here is a link to the official UML 2.1 XMI files (it turns=20
> out the UML 2.0 metamodel had some internal structural=20
> problems that means that valid XMI could not be generated=20
> when the package merge rules were applied!):=20
> http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/06-04-07
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> The Zip file has many files within it: to make sense of them=20
> you need to understand that:
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> a) UML2 has several levels of compliance:=20
> L0 corresponds to structure of EMOF (subset of MOF 1.4 - has=20
> no Associations)
> LM corresponds to structure of CMOF (superset of MOF 1.4 -=20
> has association generalization, redefinition)
> L1 to L3 correspond to different levels of UML Superstructure
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> b) UML2 makes use of a technique called Package Merge (a bit=20
> like inheritance but at the package level). For convenience=20
> the metamodel is also provided in merged form though this is=20
> not the normative version (by which I mean that in the=20
> unlikely case of discrepancy the unmerged version is the official one)
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> c) The version of XMI corresponding to MOF 2.0 is XMI 2.1=20
> (XMI 2.0 is for MOF 1.4 only)
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> For more explanation of any of the above see the following specs:
> UML 2.1 Superstructure http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/06-04-02
> UML 2.1 Infrastructure http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/06-04-03
> MOF 2.0 Core http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/06-01-01
> XMI 2.1 http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/05-09-01 (this=20
> does have some examples of diffs)
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> There is also a UML 2.1 XSD file (for L3 only):=20
> http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/06-05-07
> As with all versions of XMI, the XSD (or DTD) is not very=20
> tight in terms of what it validates. Do not make the mistake=20
> of thinking that a document that is validated by the XSD is=20
> valid XMI! (However if it cannot be validated by the XSD you=20
> can be confident that it is not valid XMI).
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> There are revisions of MOF (MOF 2.2) and XMI (XMI 2.2) due to=20
> complete in the next few months. MOF 2.1 will be built on UML=20
> 2.1 as you might expect.
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> I am co-chair of the Revision Task Forces of all the above so=20
> if you have any questions or issues please let me know.
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> Regards, Pete
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> Pete Rivett (mailto:[email protected])=20
> CTO, Adaptive Inc.=20
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> http://www.adaptive.com=20
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ludger goeke [mailto:[email protected]]=20
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:07 AM
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: [mdr-users] RE: Problems with diff file
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> > Hello Elena,
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> > the exception could thrown because the nbmdr doese not=20
> > recognizes your=20
> > diff-File and then it can not generate Interfaces like Class=20
> > with the Operation "getClass()". But I must admit that I=20
> > don't know the concept of diff files. Is there an example on=20
> > the NetBeans website or could you tell me how it works? I=20
> > created the Parts of the UML2-model I needed by myself with=20
> > the Posidon-Tool. There I could attach the nessessary Tags to=20
> > model elements like Class. Is there in the meantime an=20
> > official XMI-File of the UML2-Metamodell existing on the OMG=20
> > Website? I didn't found it there.=20
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> > Regards
> > Ludger Goeke
> > --=20
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