[news.eclipse.technology.jwt] Re: [Metamodel] Initial metamodel uploaded

[Florian Lautenbacher <lautenbacher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wojtek,

AgilPro is still under development. Nevertheless there are several 
companies which are already working with it. Not the biggest one, but 
the software was created for SMEs and there are many companies testing 
it right now (the current download rate of 3,800 downloads shows that, too).
The biggest process written in this language had (to my knowledge) 20 
different actions. But of course, it is also possible to create much 
bigger processes (but, it might get confusing then). Henceforth, we are 
currently working on a concept called "ActivityLinkNode" where one can 
structure big processes into smaller ones. This will probably be 
included in the next release or the release after that.

> The best thing that is about some standard model, is that you don't have an 
> option to change it. New models (or owned models) always require some 
> changes, and working with changing model... it just makes things delivered 
> later then expected.

That's only one side of the coin: the other side is, that if you see 
that there is a problem, you can't change it and a consortium can change 
the standard in ways you don't like it, but you have to adapt your 
modeler. Both ways (having his own meta-model and relying on a 
'standard') have their advantages and disadvantages.

> Sorry to be so 'anty', but I don't want to repeat the same errors again and 
> want to be sure that we know where we are going and this is right direction.

No, that's absolutely OK. Better we discuss these topics at the 
beginning than having problems afterwards. But I also agree with Marc, 
that we currently have a running solution and code contribution that we 
can use - that's much better than starting in the middle of nowhere.

Best regards,

Florian