RE: [Andromda-devel] Some MDR issues

[Mingfai M. <mi...@ho...>]

hi Tony,

sorry, pls ignore the part about Magicdraw in the other message.

With your information, I think I know how to fix it. If the MDR is not going
to add "support" to read "*" as "-1", then the problem will not be fixed
soon and we should mention about it in our documentation. It's a nice idea
to include a template as well.

Thank you very much.

Regards,
mingfai

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Mowers [mailto:to...@am...]
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:19 PM
> To: Anthony Mowers; Mingfai Ma; and...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Andromda-devel] Some MDR issues
>
>
> Mingfai,
>
> My reply was a little terse.  Sorry,  I had just gotten off the plane from
> Canada.  It is not obvious to a new MagicDraw user how to get it to work.
>
> MagicDraw has a bug in it relating to Multiplicities,  it uses '*' when
> writing an unbounded multiplicity to an XMI file.  You need to change the
> '*' to '-1'.
>
> A blank MagicDraw project has a TagDefinition called 'applicableSubset'
> with an upper multiplicity of '-1'.   You need to look under '<
> >' tab view
> and find the TagDefinitiona->Model Package->applicableSubset model element
> and change the '*' to a '-1' or just delete that particular tag
> definition.
>
> I can send you a MagicDraw template that you can use if that
> would help and
> I could include the template in the AndroMDA distribution.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: and...@li...
> > [mailto:and...@li...]On Behalf Of Anthony
> > Mowers
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:19 PM
> > To: Mingfai Ma; and...@li...
> > Subject: RE: [Andromda-devel] Some MDR issues
> >
> >
> >
> > I am a licensed user of MagicDraw 6 and MagicDraw has been my
> > preferred CASE
> > tool for using with AndroMDA, therefore I am pretty certain
> that it works.
> > There is one bug that has to do with '1..*' relationships, but
> other than
> > that it seems to work fine for me.
> >
> > MagicDraw's native format is XMI and MDR is able to parse it.
> > You can test
> > this by editing the report project's build file and point the
> modelURL at
> > the XMI file in the MagicDraw zip file for the project.
> >
> > The report project is pretty simple, so it's not a bad way to
> test the XMI
> > parsing.
> >
> > As for using the MDR tools ... they are useful for doing MDR
> related work,
> > but I do not think a typical user of AndroMDA would care about
> > them at all.
> > A typical AndroMDA user probably doesn't really care that
> > AndroMDA is built
> > using MDR.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: and...@li...
> > > [mailto:and...@li...]On Behalf
> Of Mingfai
> > > Ma
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 7:51 AM
> > > To: and...@li...
> > > Subject: [Andromda-devel] Some MDR issues
> > >
> > >
> > > Tony,
> > >
> > > (this message contains both user and developer issues)
> > >
> > > I just tried to use Magicdraw 6 with AndroMDA but with no
> > > success. I wonder
> > > which version of Magicdraw is supported by MDR? where can I find
> > > information
> > > about that? I read from the mdr.netbeans.org page that MDR
> > > supports XMI 1.1
> > > and 1.2, I saved the project to XMI 1.1 format already.
> > >
> > > besides, there are a few tools for MDR, e.g. MDR Explorer
> > > (http://mdr.netbeans.org/mdrexplorer.html), seems very useful.
> > > are they all
> > > for NetBeans only and cannot be run as standalone application? do you
> > > recommend us to use it?  (i presume it is use for both testing a
> > > XMI file as
> > > well as visually browsing the nodes)
> > >
> > > I used the model-report sample is used to test "parsing" a
> XMI file. It
> > > works perfectly for newly created .zargo. Is it currently the
> > best way for
> > > us to test AndroMDA support to different CASE tool? say, if i
> > want to make
> > > sure AndroMDA supports Rational Rose, I should save a Rose XMI
> > > and test with
> > > the model-report.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > mingfai
> > >
> > >
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