[gme-users] RE: recover GME model files

[Shige Wang]

Zoli and Matt,

Thanks for the reply.

Since it is hard drive crash on the original development machine, I don't
have .mga file with original .mta. I can only manipulate it on a different
machine, where the .mga file cannot be opened.

I was looking a way to automatic reconstruct the meta-model using the
.xmp. As the original developer of this meta-model has gone, I'm afraid
that I may miss something during manual reconstruction and crash
interpreters using it.

Is there any solution instead of manual reconstruction? Thanks.

shige

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Zoltan Molnar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you have lost you metamodel.xml file but you have the metamodel.mga
> file, then all you have to do is to try to open that mga file and export
> it again.
> You should be able to open that .mga file if you did not reinterpret
> your metagme paradigm ( <==> the metagme.mta file did not change
> recently)
>
> If you have only the xmp file, since that is an artifact, it is not
> possible to reproduce the metamodel based on that.
> My suggestion would be that by using the metamodel.mta (xmp's binary
> version) or .xmp you can access your existing models, and you can create
> new projects also.
> By opening a model and clicking on the "Meta" tab in the right hand side
> browser you can access information about your metamodel structure.
>
> Thus you can recreate your metamodel step by step (and compare to the
> old xmp)
>
> Regards, Zoli
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sandeep Neema
> > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:25 PM
> > To: Shige Wang
> > Cc: gme-users
> > Subject: [gme-users] RE: recover GME model files
> >
> >
> > Shige,
> > Would be best to post this on the GME-users list (cc'd here)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sandeep
> >
> > --
> > Sandeep Neema
> > Research Scientist,
> > Institute of Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University
> > Phone: 615-343-9996
> > Email: sandeep.k.neema at vanderbilt.edu
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Shige Wang [mailto:wangsg at eecs.umich.edu]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:39 AM
> > > To: Sandeep Neema
> > > Subject: recover GME model files
> > >
> > >
> > > Sandeep,
> > >
> > > Sorry have to bother you on this. I will appreciate if you
> > can help or
> > > point to anyone who can help on this.
> > >
> > > Due to a hard drive crash, we lost one of the most recent GME
> > meta-model
> > > file in .xml. Now we only have a backup in .xmp (and
> > possibly a .mga
> > > file). Is there any way to recover the meta-model from these files,
> > > especially from xmp? Since significant coding have been
> > done based on
> > the
> > > model, it is difficult to recreate the code according to a
> > new model.
> > >
> > > Although this is non-Escher related project, we would like
> > to get some
> > > help from ISIS.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > shige
> > >
> >
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