[News.eclipse.technology.mddi] Re: MDDi + SA4J?

[sebastien.demathieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sébastien Demathieu)]

Hi Jim,

No problem for the misunderstanding. The round-trip Java tool you mention 
is indeed out of the scope of the MDDi project, which focuses on model 
integration.

However, MDDi and other modeling activities (EMF, GMF...) aim at being 
federated in the context of a top-level Modeling project. I would suggest 
you post your idea on the Modeling project newsgroup 
(news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.modeling). Other interested parties may 
provide additional input.

Thanks,

Sébastien

Jim Bethancourt wrote:

> Hi Sebastien,
> I apologize for not reading up on the MDDi project more.  I thought it was 
> a project that would combine available MDD tools instead of providing a 
> backbone for them.  It would be neat, though, to try and make SA4J work 
> with MDDi to provde a round-trip Java tool as another Eclipse project.  If 
> you think this would be worthwhile, maybe we could talk to the IBM 
> Alphaworks folks, as they have released code to the Eclipse project 
> before.  Please post back if you think this might be a good idea and we 
> can go from there.

> Thanks,
> Jim

> Sébastien Demathieu wrote:

> > Hi Jim,

> > I had a quick look at the SA4J website. It seems to be a quite interesting 
> > tool but I am not sure of how it relates to the model integration features 
> > we aim at providing in MDDi.

> > Do you have any suggestion on how we could use MDDi and SA4J together? 
> > Please let us know.

> > Thanks,

> > Sébastien

> > Jim Bethancourt wrote:

> > > Hi all,
> > > I came across a tool called Structural Analysis for Java (SA4J) on IBM's 
> > > Alphaworks website some time back, and just recently I took a look at the 
> > > JARS it uses and noticed that it relies heavily on the Eclipse core.  I 
> > > was thinking that it would be a neat tool to port to Eclipse as a plugin 
> > > (I think they've done that already for one of the Rational tools), and I 
> > > was wondering if this would be the place to do it since it fits into the 
> > > MDD area.  I think that teh folks at IBM would need to be contacted in 
> > > order to get them to open up the source code, but it would be really neat 
> > > if they did.  I don't know who would need to contact them or how best to 
> > > do it, but this project makes the most sense to use it.  Please post back 
> > > and let me know what your thoughts are.

> > > Here's the website:
> > > http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/sa4j

> > > Cheers,
> > > Jim