As long as we are looking for other suggestions...
Suggestion "OLD-MDR":
Make and maintain a Diagram Interchange model for MOF 1.4 (or as close
to the real thing as possible). Load it into the current version of MDR,
the one we have installed. XMI and load and save are generated from MDR
with old versions.
This would solve the file compatibility and saving and loading problems
but we still haven't made the transition to UML 2.0 and we're still
non-standard.
/Linus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: den 22 september 2006 20:24
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [argouml-dev] Keeping zargo file compatible with previous
> versions of ArgoUML
>
> Linus asked:
>
> > What would it take to update MDR to the correct versions of
> > MOF and XMI?
>
> - Formalization of a MOF 2.x compatible JMI either in the JCP, OMG, or
an
> independent group (perhaps just a set of collaborating projects)
>
> - Implementation of MOF 2.x semantics in MDR (it currently implements
MOF
> 1.4). EMOF isn't sufficient since the UML metamodels use CMOF, but it
> might
> not be necessary to implement the full CMOF semantics. This would
require
> more investigation.
>
> MagicDraw was claimed (by the AndroMDA team) to have started an open
> source
> upgrade of MDR for UML 2.x, but have supposedly dropped it because of
> unacceptable performance.
>
> > Is there another open source MOF/CWM tool out there with a
> > better roadmap for this?
>
> Not that I've found. Brian Topping of Dentaku
> http://dentaku.codehaus.org/
> was interested in perhaps doing a rewrite. AMOF2 might be another
> possible
> starting point visit:
> http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/sam/meta-
> tools/aMOF2.0forJava/index.html
> http://developer.berlios.de/projects/amof2/ Another possibility would
be
> to
> give up on the standards-based approach and just use EMF/UML2. They
don't
> currently do Diagram Interchange and each additional MOF2 based model
(eg
> SysML) would require proprietary IBM magic to convert from CMOF to
> something
> usable with EMF.
>
> There have been discussions on both the JMI and MDR lists about this
> periodically over the last year without anyone offering any good
solutions.
> The last JMI discussion was May 2006 (see "State of JMI" thread)
> http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jmi-interest.html. The most
recent
> substantive MDR discussion was Nov/Dec 2005
> http://mdr.netbeans.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=users
>
> I try and keep at least one eye open for new developments that would
> present
> away forward from our current roadblock, but I'd be more than happy to
> hear
> other suggestions.
>
> Tom
>
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