[News.eclipse.technology.mddi] Re: Do I understand MDDi?

[Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Albert

There will hopefully be a relatively simple API that a tool needs
to observe in order to be useable with MDDi.

For an Eclipse based tool, it may be possible to provide the relevant
API compliance within a next release of the tool.

Alternatively a plug-in can be provided to provide the relevant
adapters between the tool and MDDi. This plug-in may be provided
by the tool vendor or by an enthusiastic tool user.

There will probably be some helper routines that assist in complying
with the API.

	Regards

		Ed Willink

> How do you want the cooperation between tools and mddi to work?
> It's easy for one tool to export xmi and another to import it, but your 
> vision encompasses a much broader cooperation. Is there a common way or 
> standard you build on or do you rely on tool-builders to provide plugins to 
> fit into mddi?