Re: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-28 Thread Matthias Bohlen
Hello Rob, Sunday, February 27, 2005, 6:51:56 PM, you wrote: r> come up with a standard for an application (that cartridge r> developers use) and strongly suggest that any cartridges be r> designed to be a subset of this model. maybe, as the founder of the project, I should add some history here

Re: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-27 Thread Pieter Van Gorp
Hi Roy, On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:51:56 -0600 (CST), rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How much discussion has there been regarding this? You may be interested in the following thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10640472 I can add that I'm still working actively on the case

RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-27 Thread Chad Brandon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 12:55 PM To: Chad Brandon Cc: andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM > > [CB] We actually already do this PIM to PSM mapping

RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-27 Thread Chad Brandon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 12:41 PM To: Wouter Zoons Cc: andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM >> > [WZ> ] yes, but the disadvantage is t

RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-27 Thread rob
[CB] We actually already do this PIM to PSM mapping with our metafacades: metafacades are basically facades for the underlying meta model (i.e. the webservice cartridge has a WebService metafacade that is pretty much a PSM mapping to a Classifier). This WebService metafacade provides all things t

RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-27 Thread rob
[WZ> ] yes, but the disadvantage is that it is *very* complicated to propagate changes in the PSMs back into the PIM. It's complicated because there needs to exists a two-directional mapping between each 2 different models (model2model transformation). Most of the time you add refinements to the

RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-27 Thread Wouter Zoons
> > AndroMDA does generate a PSM instance per cartridge, which can be > controlled > > by tagged values in the PIM (UML), but the PSMs are never written to > file > > (we could do that though, we're just not doing it :-)) > > I guess the advantage to writing them to files has to do with tinkering

RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-27 Thread rob
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Wouter Zoons wrote: This is all coming from someone with about a month of experience with MDAs, and as all novices do, I am ranting and ranting about the newer technology I am excited about. I think all of this can be done with the given infrastructure, it's all about running

RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-27 Thread Chad Brandon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rob Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:52 AM To: andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM More newbie questions: I read a book "MDA Explained" which initially got me intereste

RE: [Andromda-user] PIM->PSM

2005-02-27 Thread Wouter Zoons
> This is all coming from someone with about a month of experience with > MDAs, and as all novices do, I am ranting and ranting about the newer > technology I am excited about. I think all of this can be done with the > given infrastructure, it's all about running the MDA cartridge on a model > to