[Uml-devel] Review / Redesign of Umbrello

[Andrew Sutton]

On Friday 25 October 2002 00:52, Heiko Nardmann wrote:
> > now... here's the only way this would ever be useful for this project.
> > we'd need the capability to create a catalog of "higher level" attributes
> > and relationships that reflect the information we find in the MOF and UML
> > standards (they use the same model elements). this means we'd need
> > attributes (and therefore interfaces) that reflected the multiplicity and
> > and ordering for each attribute and relationship.
>
> Does anyone know out of the box how kUML does it? Do they have an internal
> model which could be reused? I know that there was done some work on MOF
> and relections and such things ... we should not reevent the wheel but take
> what nature resp. other GPL projects offer ...

if i remember, kUML's MOF implementation was never finished - which is fine, 
because they were using CORBA as the backend server, and i don't think we 
want to get in to that too much. hmm... maybe we could build the entire UML 
object library as DCOP stuff. just kidding. maybe.

I'd really like to start with the MOF, but it's kind of... weird? it's like 
mini-uml. but the benifits would be good. since its the meta meta model, we 
could use it to create and generate meta models (like UML) and automatically 
implement the entire model. that's really alot of work though. i'd say, for 
the time being we should just hand build UML. we can build MOF as an 
extension package or something like that.