[news.eclipse.modeling.mdt.eodm] Re: Serializing Ecore model

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

It's best to ask about it on the EODM newsgroup, which I've added to the 
"to" list of the reply.


Tom wrote:
> Thanks so much. I really don't need 2-way conversion. I would just 
> like to have my ".model" files converted to OWL so that the diagrams 
> created from within the gmf editor can be stored in an OWL db. I tried 
> to use EODM Ecore2OWL, but havent found a way to turn my models into 
> actual ecore documents for that. I appreciate your help!
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> Ed Merks wrote:
>
> > Tom,
>
> > Unless there is a two way converter I'm not sure how saving Ecore as 
> > OWL will be reversible...
>
>
> > Tom wrote:
> > > Should I use the same approach to serialize to OWL? However, there 
> > > is no 
> OWLResourceFactoryImpl extant. I have seen ecore2owl, so instead I 
> could save to ecore then run that converter. What would be the 
> preferred method, especially within the context of a GMF project, 
> saving graph instances to OWL?
> > > Thanks!
> > > Tom