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RE: [Andromda-user] Short term plans and long term plans
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From: Anthony M. <to...@am...> - 2003-07-29 20:25:34
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The most urgent piece I need for my work is currently generation of XSD from a class model. The generation of a web service using axis can be quite simple and does not need XSD generation. I will be writing several web services over the next few months. If the AndroMDA community can wait several months then I would be happy to feed that work back into AndroMDA. Tony -----Original Message----- From: and...@li... [mailto:and...@li...]On Behalf Of Matthias Bohlen Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:56 AM To: 'Philippe F. Monnet'; and...@li... Subject: RE: [Andromda-user] Short term plans and long term plans Hi, Philippe, XSD and WSDL? I am afraid, no. Indeed, it would be nice to have automatic generation of web services. Are there any volunteers for this? Cheers... Matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: and...@li... > [mailto:and...@li...] On Behalf > Of Philippe F. Monnet > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:07 PM > To: and...@li... > Subject: Re: [Andromda-user] Short term plans and long term plans > > > Is the XSD generation on the timeline too? > Also, WSDL support would be great. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthias Bohlen" <mb...@mb...> > To: "'Doroszlai Attila'" <da...@hs...> > Cc: <and...@li...>; > <and...@li...> > Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 7:19 AM > Subject: [Andromda-user] Short term plans and long term plans > > > Hi Attila, > hi to our developers and users, > > thank you for your offer to help - this is always appreciated. > > I think, there are some basic steps that future AndroMDA > developers should take: > > * read the project summary at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/andromda/ > * read about patches, feature requests and bugs of the product > * subscribe to andromda-devel, andromda-cvs and andromda-user > (see http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=73047) > * check out the CVS version of AndroMDA and recompile it > (see http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=73047) > * discuss a change to AndroMDA on the andromda-devel list > * submit a good patch to solve an interesting problem with AndroMDA > (see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=73047&atid=536547) > > Please submit the solution as a patch in AndroMDA's patch > area (link see above). We'll examine it and if the code is > good, you'll get committer rights for our CVS repository and > become an official member of the team. > > OK, to answer your question now: > > > What are your current short-term plans? Would a new sub-project be > > acceptable for you? If so, what kind of cartridges would > you like to > > see being developed in the future? > > We are just on the brink of a new release, AndroMDA 2.0.2 > final (as opposed to the alpha release that we have got > today). To make it really *final*, there are a number of things to do: > > 2.1) Currently, AndroMDA is delivered in several ZIP files, > one for each purpose (core, cartridges, samples, etc.). Users > have reported that this is too complex to handle and install. > So, the goal for 2.0.2 is to deliver only two ZIPs: one for > the binaries, one for source code. This makes the ZIPs much > larger but also much easier to install and run. > > 2.2) The web pages mention a wizard that creates an empty > code generation project as a good starting point for new > users to work with AndroMDA. This wizard was broken (by me!) > when the software was reorganized and the cartridge mechanism > was introduced. I did not have time to fix this, Tony (author > of the wizard) had neither. The wizard must be working again > before we release. The wizard consists of only one XML file, > so that one should be easy to change (but must be throughly tested!). > > 2.3) Each cartridge that we have should be demonstrated with > a template project that new users can copy and extend. Tony > Mowers wrote a template project for the EJB cartridge, I will > have to write a template project for the hibernate cartridge. > I do not know if it makes sense to create one for the > currently somewhat crude Struts cartridge. > > 2.4) A new XDoclet release has come out. AndroMDA V2.x should > contain and use it. > > OK, these were the goals for V2.0.2. > > After the release of 2.x, we plan to create a branch in CVS > for 2.x maintenance releases and continue with the > development of V3.0 on the main trunk. My main goals for the > V3.0 release are: > > 3.1) Make AndroMDA usable in an agile context. Examples: It > should be possible to rename a class, attribute or method or > move a class into a different package, etc. without breaking > the compile cycle. With 2.x this is impossible because > AndroMDA does not know that a model element was renamed or > moved and happily generates a new one, keeping the old one as > an orphan. This breaks the code and the user has to > re-arrange it manually which is very tedious. I dream of an > integration of AndroMDA as an Eclipse plugin, making AndroMDA > aware of model changes. AndroMDA should then invoke the > Eclipse JDT to do the name changes on the code level. I don't > know if this is possible, but at least that's the goal. > > 3.2) Richard Kunze has supplied a sophisticated and powerful > new EJB cartridge as a patch. This should become part of the > 3.x release, too. > > 3.3) Andy Soroker works on a JDO cartridge (hi Andy, how is > it?). This should also become part of the new release. > > 3.4) Netbeans MDR (the metadata engine we use in the core) > has the possibility to notify AndroMDA when it creates an > instance of a metamodel class. Upon that event, AndroMDA > could instantiate a cartridge-supplied decorator class that > implements model consistency checks and fine grain support > for Velocity scripts. Trivial example: When a JMI class for a > UML attribute is instantiated, AndroMDA could attach a > decorator that has a "getGetterName()" method that retuns the > name of the appropriate getter for the attribute. There are > more complex things possible with this approach. Users of > AndroMDA could write their own decorators for their own UML profiles. > > Well, that's it for the moment. There's more to come, I think. > > So, if you want to join us, please have a look at the two > task lists above. Maybe, you can try to do 2.2 and submit a > patch for it? After that, we can look what you can do next. > Is that OK for you? > > Have fun... > Matthias > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Doroszlai Attila [mailto:da...@hs...] > > Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:29 PM > > To: Matthias Bohlen > > Subject: joining the AndroMDA development team > > > > > > Dear Matthias, > > > > My name is Attila Doroszlai, I study software engineering at the > > Technical University of Budapest, Hungary. My current interest is > > code generation. > > > > Recently, I examined a number of tools for the generation of J2EE > > code, and found that the one I'd like to work with is > AndroMDA, so I'd > > like to join the development team. > > > > Since this is also a university project for me, my work on AndroMDA > > would have to be evaluated by my teacher. Therefore, I'd need an > > assignment that is large enough to last about half a year > (working on > > it in part-time), and at the same time small enough for me > to be able > > to handle it. > > > > My original goal was to write a tool for generating Entity > Beans, but > > I see that AndroMDA already has this capability. Thus, I'm > considering > > the generation of the (web) user interface instead. In the Code > > Generation Network interview, however, you said that your > focus was on > > the server-side quite for some time. I don't stick to > front-end code > > generation, I'd accept any reasonable task. > > > > I understand that joining an already established project cannot be > > done in a single step, so I'm ready to do bug-fixing and > more before I > > start working on a new cartridge. > > > > What are your current short-term plans? Would a new sub-project be > > acceptable for you? If so, what kind of cartridges would > you like to > > see being developed in the future? > > > > sincerely, > > Attila > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft > Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. > Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Andromda-user mailing list And...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. 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