[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: On-the-fly EMOF-to-Ecore mapping

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Víctor,

Comments below.

Víctor Roldán Betancort wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been experimenting a bit with .emof files.
I'm always curious if .emof files come from anything other than EMF.  
Where did your EMOF models come from?
> I was surprised how these kind of files could be opened without any 
> EMOF metamodel registered. Taking a look at the source code I realized 
> that there was an on-the-fly mapping during XMI serialization.
Yes, the EMOF and Ecore models pretty near isomorphic.
> I actually had some EMOF-based metamodels, but it was not possible to 
> generate instances of that metamodel.
Where did they come from?
> Creating the genmodel failed.
Did you validate the Ecore model that was produced?  The generator 
typically does that for you, so I imagine it would be hard to overlook 
the warnings/errors.  What exactly failed?
> I think it's possible to be generated programmatically, but I'm aiming
> to generate editors to create instances of my .emof based metamodel
That should be possible.  I'd need to understand what isn't working.
> My question is if it's really possible to generate the genmodel for an 
> ..emof file, and in case there isn't, if there is any plan to give 
> support to it.
It should definitely be possible, as long as the resulting Ecore model 
is well formed and complete.  Validation should find all the problems.  
I'll need more details.
> Regards,
>    Víctor.