FW: What I would like GME to be

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From: 	Akos Ledeczi
Sent: 	Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:48:26 PM
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Adi:

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From: 	Aditya Agrawal
Sent: 	Thursday, September 26, 2002 5:32:24 PM
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Dear friends,

Since quite a few of us have registered to this group, I will take the opportunity for spilling my ideas. 

1. I would like to break the GME into the Model View Controller pattern where the Model is the MGA layer. The View is GME (and possibly more viewer and a separate controller, so that plug-in and other external codes can get access and control the models. 
[Akos Ledeczi]  

How is NOT like that now? Please, elaborate.

2. Another change that I would like is to separate the Metamodel into a class diagram and a visualization part and not have the visualization information as part of the class diagram. I would like to have a UML class diagram and another sheet that probably tells us how to visualize the particular classes. 

[Akos Ledeczi]  

When we designed the current metamodeling environment we went through similar
discussions. What we have now was the result. Do you have specific suggestions
on how to accomplish this? I don;t know how many of you remember the previous
version (Greg's work), but that may have been closer to this principle, but it was
much harder to use and you had to specify info multiple times.

So, the principle is great, the question is how to realize it...

What do you all think about these and how difficult is it going to be to introduce these changes in the current GME? 

Adi