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Subject: RE: XMI reality check
Kurt, Thanks a lot. I assume this was IBM's alphaworks XMI toolkit? http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xmitoolkit Did you try exchanging XMI models between different UML tools? >IBM's toolkit was also better at preserving the model graphics when imported. Did that mean, preserving model graphics thru XMI was not very good even with the IBM toolkit? -Bob Haugen -----Original Message----- From: Kanaskie, Kurt A (Kurt) [SMTP:kkanaskie@lucent.com] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:26 PM To: 'Jim Clark'; Welsh, David Cc: Race Bannon; 'Bob Haugen'; 'ebXML-BP@llists.ebxml.org'; 'ebXML-CCBP-Analysis (E-mail)' Subject: RE: XMI reality check All, I have had some experience with XMI (Unisys's plug in for Rational and IBM's XMI toolkit). I agree XMI is ugly but it was intended for machine to machine exchange of models, not human readability. I have found IBM's version to be more complete that Unisys's for what I was trying to do. IBM's toolkit was also better at preserving the model graphics when imported. I successfully used XSLT on the XMI from a UML model, based on Booch's meta-model for XML Schema, to generate a human readable XML DTD. This approach is being finalized by OAG as their method of generating DTDs from a UML model of all of their BODs (170+). Thus I believe that XMI can be used to generate XML instances of business processes modeled in UML. However, this approach will require some consistency changes to the UML version of the Spec Schema. Another benefit of XMI is to generate meta-model instance DTDs that can be used to check model instance UML models. The stock tools to generate these DTDs are also quite ugly and not human friendly, but serve the purpose. Regards, ________________________________________________________________ Kurt Kanaskie Lucent Technologies kkanaskie@lucent.com (610) 712-3096
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