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

Hello,

The UML2MOF ATL transformation has a rule to translate constraints
from UML to MOF.
See: http://www.eclipse.org/m2m/atl/atlTransformations/#UML2MOF

In case this transformation does not completely fit your need, you may
improve it. This should be simpler than changing the UML2MOF tool
written in Java.


Best regards,

Fr=E9d=E9ric


On 11/6/07, Pieter Van Gorp <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]> wrot=
e:
> > 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 al=
l
> > 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.
>