[Introspector-developers] Happy new year, plan for 2003

[James M. D. <mdu...@ya...>]

Dear fellow hackers,

Happy new year!
2003 is a new year, and an important year for the introspector.

Thank you all for your support and ideas, we are getting close to a
major breakthrough.

What we need in this project is a clean goal, one that we can all work
towards. Something that is clearly stated. Something that we can all
agree on.

here is my attempt : please tell me what you think

The next major milestone of the introspector is to read in structures
and fields, classes and members from c/c++ and java into the
meta-model. 

We will read in the rdf and instanciate the classes and members from
the ModifyClasses.pm as used in the CreateClasses.pm

this will allow us to read in any C/C++/Java code and then generate
Perl,SQL, html and Java code from it. it will allow us to use the
introspector for static modelling.


the second step will be to document the meta-model in terms of the
common lisp object system CLOS. it is a well understood model that has
well defined semantics. I thik that a CLOSGenerator (Like a
java-generator) is the right way forward.

But we need to do one more thing :
Thirdly. all the language generators currently describe classes,
the java generator creates classes. but what about objects?


we nee an JavaInstance generator : the ability to create code that
represents instances of java, in terms of the generated classes. Also
we need to be able to read in instances from an XML/RDF feed. 

so to summarize :

1. support the creation of meta-model from the rdf input from the gcc.
 : meta-circularity

2. support the generation of CLOS classes
 : using a well defined class model to document ours

3. support the generation of source code for instances of 
Java, perl, CLOS, sql from the rdf, in terms of the generated classses.
  : creation of literal source code that creates instances from the
literals (constants)

4. Support reading of the rdf files and generation of these instances
as programm code.
  : creation of source code that creates instances from a variable file
of data.

so we have a clear roadmap. Right now we have over 20 members of the
mailing list, many are interested, but are not active. We have 9
project members, but only 2-3 are active. It time to bring some clean
targets and goals into the project and find people who are interested
in helping or that think that we are working in the right direction.

Regards,
mike



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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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