RE: [argouml-dev] argouml-emf

Hello Markus!

I just committed the first attempt at this. I haven't gotten the ant
script and paths correct so the launch is not working correctly.

I hope this will bring you forward anyway. Maybe I will have time to
have a look at it later.

        /Linus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Klink [mailto:markus.klink@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: den 4 november 2006 16:52
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [argouml-dev] argouml-emf
> 
> See below:
> 
> Linus Tolke wrote:
> > Hello Markus!
> >
> > Please try to avoid forking as long as possible.
> >
> > Instead, we should use this opportunity to redesign the Model
subsystem
> > interface to fit UML 2.0.
> >
> > The difficulties are when new things appear that has no support in
the
> > MDR version. In those cases I hope we can find a way to respond to
the
> > new methods that makes ArgoUML behave well using both
implementations.
> >
> >
> I doubt that we will have the resources to do this. And I doubt that
it
> can be done well. I know the UML2 Metamodel very well, and it is
> (fortunately) quite different in many aspects and better designed. I
> woudn't want to put work into something which makes the result worse
> than it could be.
> > On a technical note, notice that the model plug-ins in ArgoUML are
much
> > more static than all other plug-ins. They cannot be enabled and
disabled
> > at run-time, they must be available on the classpath when ArgoUML
> > starts, they cannot coexist with other model plug-ins... This is by
> > design.
> >
> > If you want, I can create the basic infrastructure with classes with
> > empty methods and fix the build scripts and Eclipse configurations
that
> > are needed. I know how this is done. After that you can focus on the
> > things close to emf i.e. filling the empty methods with
emf-specifics.
> >
> 
> that would be nice if you could do that. I'd like to make a
feasibility
> study by supporting some basic diagrams with EMF/uml2. Please let me
> know when you get around to doing that and thanks for the help...
> 
> Markus
> 
> >     /Linus
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Markus Klink [mailto:markus.klink@xxxxxxx]
> >> Sent: den 1 november 2006 07:06
> >> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [argouml-dev] argouml-emf
> >>
> >> Hello *,
> >>
> >> just wanted to let you know that I will very slowly, time
permitting,
> >> start developing the argouml-emf plugin. I will at first try to get
> >>
> > some
> >
> >> very basic things going, and after that I will probably need to
fork
> >> argouml, or we need to have another strategy how we can work with
the
> >> UML 2.0 metamodel which emf/uml2 require and the UML 1.4 that
> >> netbeans/mdr requires.
> >>
> >> Markus
> >>
> >>
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