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Bug 401119

Summary:

Provide a UML 2.5 Beta examples plugin

Product:

[Modeling] MDT.UML2

Reporter:

Ed Willink <ed>

Component:

Core

Assignee:

UML2 Inbox <mdt-uml2-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

Version:

4.0.0

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows Vista

Whiteboard:

Bug Depends on:

401118

Bug Blocks:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Work in Progress Example	none
Standalone support for UML 2.5 using UML 2.4.1	none

Description Ed Willink

2013-02-18 14:23:28 EST

Created attachment 227213 [details]
Work in Progress Example

Providing a UML 2.5 Beta examples plugin will serve two purposes

a) making UML 2.5 Beta models available

b) demonstrating how an unsupported namespace may be added, exploiting the latest supported UML as the best approximation to something unknown.

[It will always be desirable for UML developers to be able to use one version ahead of the Eclipse release.]

Usage of UML 2.5 Beta has checkintocvs permission for MDT/OCL under https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6850

Attempting to create this example highlights some limitations in the content tyope registrations: Bug 401118

Comment 1 Kenn Hussey

2013-02-18 19:52:22 EST

I don't see how such examples are of general interest to UML2 consumers, especially without first class support for (de)serializing them. Note that native support for UML 2.5 is tentatively planned for the Kepler + 1 (Luna?) release of UML2...

Comment 2 Ed Willink

2013-08-13 10:00:36 EDT

The "Importing/Opening xmi file from OMG" thread of 9 Aug 2013 on the UML newsgroup is typical of a user trying to use recent OMG specifications and running into big trouble because there is no way that I know of to define the relevant namespaces.

How do I/we help these guys?

Comment 3 Kenn Hussey

2013-08-13 13:00:36 EDT

The newsgroup post didn't have anything to do with namespaces from a newer specification; instead, it had to do with malformed XMI (I replied in the forum to that effect).

Comment 4 Ed Willink

2013-08-14 04:51:44 EDT

Thanks. Simple 'fix'. I thought we needed to define new namespaces.

Comment 5 Ed Willink

2013-09-26 22:44:10 EDT

Created attachment 235874 [details]
Standalone support for UML 2.5 using UML 2.4.1

The attached file may be used to install UML 2.5 support for standalone usage of UML 2.4.1.

Note that in XMI252UMLExtendedMetaData.getPackage()

	else if ("http://www.omg.org/spec/MOF/20131001".equals(namespace)) {
		return demandPackage(namespace);
	}
	else if ("http://www.omg.org/spec/XMI/20131001".equals(namespace)) {
		return demandPackage(namespace);
	}

suppresses redundant Internet pings; this should be in the standard UMLExtendedMetaData too.