Re: [mdr-users] constraints in UML to MOF

Hi Richard,
The MOF version supported by MDR does support constraints (see section
3.4.26 in the MOF 1.4 spec,
http://www.omg.org/docs/formal/02-04-03.pdf) but the NetBeans UML2MOF
transformation does not support the translation from constraints
attached to UML Classifiers to constraints attached to MOF
Classifiers.  It should be possible to build such a translation but I
don't know of any existing one.

Best regards,
Pieter Van Gorp

On Nov 6, 2007 4:14 PM, Mgr. Richard Ciglansky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> it seems you are making some MOF-metamodel of your own.
> This metamodel should be expressed in MOF terms. As there was no MOF
> tool available in old days to do this directly, but many UML tools were
> available, uml2mof tool was developed to simplify creation of 'MOF
> metamodel' in the way, that it can be designed in UML as 'UML model'
> using some very restricted sub-set of UML and then this 'UML Model' can
> be using 'uml2mof' converted into 'MOF metamodel'.
> All UML features not 'mappable' to MOF are ignored.
> I believe that 'MOF metamodel' cannot contain constraints. therefore all
> constraints from UML are ignored by 'uml2mof' tool.
> Check documentation for 'uml2mof' how to prepare you UML Model to be
> fully convertible to MOF-metamodel.
>
>
> The behavior is by design.