[epf-dev] Allowing late changes in published configurations

["Ricardo Martinho" <rmartin.email@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

I'm working on the customization of EPF in order to
allow the composition of flexible configurations. This means that,
basically, users should be allowed to change configurations (through
the publish perspective/published website?), but only to a certain
predefined degree of change. As an example, consider the definition of
a UP-based configuration, with a half-baked programming stage, which
should allow users to freely late-model the missing programming steps
according to some project specifics, but strictly requires an API
reference as a work product at the end.

This will imply extending the UMA metamodel with more specific
flexibility concepts and mechanisms to be associated with the SPEM
modeling elements. It will also imply a way to mark those elements
(through stereotypes) in a configuration that are somehow flexible.
Finally, it must allow users to change configurations in the publish
perspective/published website, according to the restricted flexible
ways and mechanisms associated previously with the configurations
elements.

I'd like to have your guidelines (through the EPF code)
regarding the way I can do this. For now, I just want to be able to
associate a predefined flexible mechanism to a SPEM element (e.g. an
Activity), and propagate that association to the several views of that
element, including the possibility to change it in browsing
perspectives, according to the associated flexible mechanism.

Thanks in advance,

Ricardo Martinho.