[cosmic-users] possibilities to import UML diagrams

[Friedhelm Wolf]

Sumant,

If you have/build a tool to transform the existing UML class diagrams
> into CORBA 3.0 IDL then your job is more or less done. CoSMIC has a tool


Until now, there's is no such tool. We are still in the process of
evaluating.

called IDL importer ($COSMIC_ROOT/bin/idl_to_picml.exe), which reads a
> closure of IDL files and generates a big chunk of PICML model from it.
> It basically generates a PICML equivalent of component interface types,
> component implementation etc. What remains after that is to manually
> build an assembly from the component types in PICML and generate



Until now, I thought more about a thing like:
UML description of the system -> CoSMIC PICML model -> (idl, cidl,
descriptor) files
                                    mapper tool                    CoSMIC
generators
because I guess, we could even generate some information about packages and
other descriptor files out of the UML model.

descriptors from that. MPC files can also be generated from the PICML model.


 I didn't find that in the Quoter tutorial shipped with CIAO. Which kind of
PICML folder
contains MPC descriptions?

I am not sure about the role of stereotypes in the UML model that you
> have. We might be able to help you discover a mapping for them if you
> could provide us further details.


 I'll come back to that, if we want to look into this approach in more
details (this descission
is not up to me).

But to sum up, what I found so far:
There might be 2 approaches to bring existing UML descriptions into a PICML
model:
1. Use the existing MetaGME UML model to import the diagrams (question:
which is the input format to import UML descriptions?)
   and create a DSML which maps this UML profile to PICML
2. generate IDL files out of the UML profiles and import the into PICML
using the idl_to_picml.exe importer.

Thanks for the valuable hints,
Friedhelm

Thanks,
>
> Sumant.
>
> >
> >     MetaGME, which is close to UML. Your UML models (class diagrams) may
> be
> >     imported as a metamodel with some transformations on it but that
> will
> >     give rise to a new DSML, which won't be a part of CoSMIC. Which DSML
> in
> >
> >
> > Ok, this would be an approach, where GME itself would do the
> transformation
> > of our modell into the desired format. However I'm not shure if that
> > works for
> > in the UML definition I talk of, there are additionally defined
> > stereotypes. Would MetaGME
> > be able to cope with something like that. I'm not very familiar with
> > DSML specification
> > in CoSMIC. How would it look like (which tools, ...) to define a DSML
> > that can map
> > an UML spec to a CoSMIC DSML?
> >
> >     CoSMIC do you think is useful for you? PICML, CQML, DQML, POSAML are
> the
> >     major ones.
> >
> >
> > We talk about PICML here for now  ... because its mainly about the
> > generation of
> > CCM interfaces.
> >
> >     I hope my explanation is not confusing. Let us know if you have more
> >     questions.
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your explanations and questions to clearify my request.
> >
> > Friedhelm
> >
> >
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     Sumant.
> >
> >     Friedhelm Wolf wrote:
> >      > Hi there,
> >      >
> >      > can you point me to some documentation about import functionality
> for
> >      > PICML and GME?
> >      > Our use case is, that we have a system specified within
> Enterprise
> >      > Architect in UML and
> >      > we hope to be able to import parts of the system into CoSMIC by
> some
> >      > form of automated
> >      > import functionality.
> >      >
> >      > Does anyone have some experience here?
> >      >
> >      > Thanks a lot,
> >      > Friedhelm
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> >
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