[news.eclipse.stp] Re: Is there any Policy meta-model in STP?

[oisin.hurley@xxxxxxxxx (Oisin Hurley)]

Hi Juan,

Juan Pedro Silva wrote:
>                           I am taking a look at STP features, in 
> particular the policy stuff, and suddenly began wondering if STP was 
> using some sort of meta-model for policies in the same spirit as it uses 
> the intermediate metamodel.

I've long considered that it would be a good idea to include 
such a metamodel in the intermediate metamodel - basically
to enhance it with policy-related entities. Then it would be 
a more complete thing. It's possible to represent policies 
given the existing structures in IM, but it's not as clear as 
have policy entities as first class model participants.

Short answer to your question is - we haven't gone much
distance down that road, above and beyond the basic 
internal models that are kept by the editors, but I think
it's fair to say we are open to ideas in this space.

Could you maybe give a little more detail, or examples
of what you had in mind?

 best regards
   Oisin

p.s. apologies for my tardiness in replying - I've been 
spending my time getting the Galileo contributions 
ready!