Re: I thought i was wrong once but i was mistaken [Re: petal2dia?]

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 yahoo com>]

--- Alan Horkan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> > > ignore everyone
> > > listen to me!!!
> > > there is a bug report, i might look it up tomorrow ...
> > where, when how?
> 
> In Gnome Bugzilla under the Dia component of course.  All you had to
> do
> was look, where else might it be.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62397
> 
> > Is there a path for transitioning Rose models to dia/UML?
> 
> So the question said Dia or UML and XMI is another UML format.
> I read the question as "Dia UML" not Dia or UML.
> 
> > Ummm.... My knee jerk reaction was spot on.
> 
> It was not spot on.  Helpful maybe, but you over estimate to say you
> were
> spot on.

Fine. in the right direction. I did not know rational does not use XML
directly. All of the XMI examples I have seen are from the OMG, and
they used petal and mdl files as well as XMI. I just assumed it was
easy to store them.  


Using the novosoft xmi lib was my first knee jerk reaction,
before I knew about crazybeans. That uses the same xmi lib, and reads
petal. If we follow that path, we will get to importing rose models. 
Even If i did not know about crazy beans at the time.

> 
> Crazybeans is not a part of Dia, nor does it produce Dia or Xfig
> files
> that can be imported into Dia.  
I was talking about linking it into dia, via the gjc(gnu java
compiler). 
Then transforming the data structures in memory.

> While it is a potential path it is
> not an
> actual path.

True, and I dont want to start another argument. You are right.

But My estimate is still correct. It will lead us to be able to import
xmi and petal files, in the long run.

mike


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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