[news.eclipse.technology.almiif] Re: Proposal question

["Brian Carroll" <bcarroll@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert,

The answer to your question is: Yes. While a major aspect of ALF is indeed 
process integration (the "tool chain"), ALF will also provide data 
integration (passing the outputs from one tool and providing them as inputs 
to another).  In the early phases of the project, ALF will provide a 
designer and a runtime component to map data from one tool to another, 
however, a longer term goal of ALF is to develop example XML vocabularies 
for data interchange.  So in the early phases ALF will enable data 
integration among tools, and later on it will facilitate that interchange, 
such that each tool need only map to and from the standard XML vocabularies, 
rather than having many unique mappings between each pair of tools. 
Designing and getting consensus around such vocabularies can be a protracted 
process however, and we did not want to delay the benefits of ALF until 
consensus as achieved.  So, ALF will provide the data integration you 
describe in the initial release, and the example vocabularies will come as 
industry vendors and customers agree on the data to be exchanged for each 
subject area that tools address.

Regards,
Brian Carroll
Serena

"Robert" <robert-francois.pastor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:934292ea6716cc1a93164d58f1ef4583$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dear Tracy,
>
> It seems to be clear that one of the ALMIIF missions is to trigger & 
> orchestrate a set of services provided by the tools, probably according to 
> some company or project specific work flow definition. I mean that if the 
> Software is built, a bug issue or an enhancement request will after some 
> analysis trigger a set of rework activities.
>
> The change impacts will have to be analysed and one will understand which 
> development artefacts have to be modified and which tools are involved in 
> these modification tasks.
>
> My question is : will ALMIIF take the outputs of one tool and provide them 
> as inputs to another one in the tool chain or will ALMIFF only ensure that 
> development process is followed until the Software gets stable according 
> to configuration management rules ?
>
> Robert
>
>