Re: [ccmtools-devel] DTD-Java-generator and UML-IDL-converter

[Robert L. <rle...@sb...>]

Hello!

Leif Johnson wrote:
> If you get a chance, I'd appreciate it if you could briefly describe
> what those recently added MDR/MOF files do ...

The directory MDR has the following content:

mdr01.jar   A subset of the Netbeans Metadata Repository (http://mdr.netbeans.org).
            It generates Java code out of MOF metamodels using the Java Metadata
            Interface (JMI). I use this tool for the OCL metamodel.

oclmetamodel.jar   The OCL metamodel.
                   It is used by the DbC (design by contract) generator.

MOF/OCL.*   The MOF metamodel and the generated sources for OCL.


We must add "mdr01.jar" and "oclmetamodel.jar" to the Java classpath,
to compile and run the C++ code generator after I added the DbC
generator to the CVS! That means, we should handle these files
like "antlr.jar".

It is possible to create "oclmetamodel.jar" from "MOF/OCL.MagicDraw.xml.zip",
but the MDR tools are difficult to handle. The best thing is to add the jar-files
to the classpath, and forget them :-)


> However, it might take a week or so to integrate your new tools and
> libraries nicely into the ccmtools. I'll work on this, too, if you
> don't mind ... especially since I've got some pending autotools work
> to get things working with the external environment libraries. I'll
> probably want to move some of your executables to other places in the
> source tree, but I'll check with you before changing stuff too much.

If you put "ccmtools.uml_parser" and "ccmtools.uml2idl" in one jar-file,
we can use the UML to IDL converter 'stand-alone' (without ANTLR or ccmtools).


Bye

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