| [gmt-dev] Re: Info on Montages |
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Hi Philipp,
> For having an impression on the tool we did, there is a (very big, ca.
20 MB)
> powerpoint animation about how the tool works at > http://www.kutter.org/A4Monline/html/index.php?lbl=mtgtut An executable > version of the old tool is at www.xasm.org as well the TclTk/C sources are available > if someone is interested. ok, will download it as soon as I have more
than a modem connection :-)
> The detailed description of how it works is in my thesis. It can be downloaded at > http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~kutter/MontagesThesis.zip but quite long. ok.
> On our web-page I shortly explain what is the future product strategy. Back in 2000 > we have filed a patent for a method allowing to make XML executable by embedding > executable actions, and storing intermediate results as attributes of the elements. We use > EMF/XSD to generate from an XML Schema a MOF model, and from there we implement > the techniques described in the thesis. The patent only protects our stuff, if you start with > XML, and thus, if you start with MOF, there is no protection. As you can see on our > pa>ge, we plan to make the sources freely available, and if you use it starting from MOF, > or some textual format not being XML, for instance the forthcoming human readable UML/MOF > notation, then you can use it for free. Otherwise, you should have a license from us. I am > t sure whether what we produce will have value for the community for reusing it, but as > a side effect we may provide some interesting plug-ins for analyzing and decorating MOF > syntax trees. ok, will look at it!
> At the moment we just implement, descriptions, white-papers, e.t.c. are not planned before 2005. > Because of the general conditions, my partners went back to research positions, and I am doing > this basically alone. Thus do not expect us to create miracles, both in the positive and negative sense. :-)
Markus
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Ziegelaecker 11, 89520 Heidenheim, Germany Tel. +49 (0) 73 21 / 97 33 44 http://www.voelter.de
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