[news.eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2] Re: Relationship between UML and a cust

[Marco Mosconi <mosconi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

the problem in this case would be that the *.uml model is based on the 
merge product of the whole UML superstructure, and not only the kernel 
package. Thus, such a .uml model may contain information that is not 
present in your merged subset and/or be incompatible with it.

Marco

Timothy Marc schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> one question concerning the relationship between an UML and my own model. I 
> merged the whole kernel package from the UML Superstructure into my own 
> model, let's call it XModel. In that XModel i defined a package foundation, 
> which takes all the elements from the Kernel package. Now, i have a more 
> conceptual, theoretically question:
>
> When i want to transform a uml class model into my XModel, is it sufficient 
> to copy the parts of the containment tree from the uml model into my XModel? 
> Or more precisly, how do the elements in the UML::kernel and 
> XModel::foundation relates to each other? IMHO, they only mutuality of them 
> are their names. They are not compareable to each other in a conceptual way, 
> because the are defined in different model scopes, aren't they?
>
> Thx
> Timothy