Issue 3411: MOF specifies no interfaces for actually (de-)serializing a model (mof-rtf)
Source: Adaptive (Mr. Pete Rivett, pete.rivett(at)adaptive.com)
Nature: Enhancement
Severity: Critical
Summary: MOF specifies no interfaces for actually (de-)serializing a model (to, for example, a XMI stream). Without such an interface it is not possible to guarantee that 2 XMI tools/repositories can communicate with each other, regardless of how completely they support MOF/XMI. Since the OMG is meant to be about interoperability this is a critical omission.
It would make sense for MOF to make use of the Streamable interface defined as part of the Externalization service.
And for the capability to be defined against Namespace to allow reasonable flexibility of granularity.
Obviously XMI is only one possible format for the stream: the XMI specification should also be extended to fit into the detailed specification adopted for streaming MOF-compliant metamodels.
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March 13, 2000: received issue
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 02:46:23 -0500 (EST)
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Name: Pete Rivett
Company: Adaptive
mailFrom: pete.rivett@adaptive.com
Notification: Yes
Specification: Meta Object Facility
Section: 3.4.2 (suggestion)
Formal #: ad/99-09-04
Version: 1.3
Revision_Date: 09/27/99
Page: 74 (suggestion)
Nature: Enhancement
Severity: Critical
full_desc: MOF specifies no interfaces for actually (de-)serializing a
model (to, for example, a XMI stream). Without such an interface it is
not possible to guarantee that 2 XMI tools/repositories can
communicate with each other, regardless of how completely they support
MOF/XMI. Since the OMG is meant to be about interoperability this is a
critical omission.
It would make sense for MOF to make use of the Streamable interface
defined as part of the Externalization service.
And for the capability to be defined against Namespace to allow
reasonable flexibility of granularity.
Obviously XMI is only one possible format for the stream: the XMI
specification should also be extended to fit into the detailed
specification adopted for streaming MOF-compliant metamodels.
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