[mdt-uml2.dev] UML 2.5 plan

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI

Do you/we have any detailed plans for UML 2.5 in Luna ? I've seen 
encouraging responses to a variety of Bugzillas but no pressure on me 
for action.

I'm still working hard at OCL to Java CG, but making much slower 
progress than I'd hoped.

At present I'm very close to having the CG compilation error free within 
GenModel after reconstructing the 'UML' from its Ecore. However for pure 
OCL the code is quite bloated. Some CG options promising that all 
property accesses are valid and that int may be used as OCL Integer can 
help, but there will be the problem of a dependency on the OCL runtime 
library.

Realistically I don't think I  can get automatically generated Java to a 
state that will be acceptable to the Eclipse UML project for M6.

And since the UML 2.5 OCL has never been executed, we must expect a 
certain amount of debugging pain, particularly on the many new 
Interactions constraints.

One possible option might be to recognize that UML 2.5 is so similar to 
UML 2.4.1 that the existing manually compiled 'OCL' can be re-used 
almost as is for Eclipse 5.0 allowing the code generated OCL to be 
perhaps selectively dropped in for 5.1. This will give a much longer 
time to resolve conflicts between the manual coded validation and the 
specified validation.

    Regards

        Ed Willink