[news.eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2] Re: Operations Package Export in GenMod

[Kenn Hussey <Kenn.Hussey@xxxxxxxxx>]

This isn't a bug so much as design intent, from the perspective that 
operations classes are meant to be "internal" to the implementation of 
the metamodel. I suppose that specialized metamodels (e.g. for those 
that extend UML) might want/need to reuse operation implementations, but 
I don't know how often that would happen. In any case, I'm not sure this 
 change can be made in a maintenance release since it effectively 
changes the "API" of the model plug-in...

Kenn

James Bruck wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> This does seem like a bug.    Please raise a defect on UML2 and possibly 
> contribute a patch if you have one.
> This could possibly be a candidate for the maintenance release.
>
> Cheers,
> - James.
>
> "John T.E. Timm" <johntimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:321b6d7c3f8041ac23eb451481ec4d97$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I ended up customizing the manifest.mfjet template to get the required 
> > behavior. This does appear to be a shortcoming of the current implemention. 
> > If I create a model that uses operations packages and then another model 
> > which extends the first, I will get code that doesn't compile until the 
> > manifest file is manually updated.
> >
> > JT
> >
> > John T.E. Timm wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a way to specify in the GenModel that the Operations Package 
> > > should get exported so that it can be used by other projects that further 
> > > specialize the model and also use an Operations Package? I am currently 
> > > adding an entry to the manifest.mf file manually.
> > > Thanks,
> > > JT
> > > NOTE: I originally posted this message in eclipse.model.mdt, but feel 
> > > that perhaps the UML2 newsgroup is more appropriate.