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> From: Rohit Khare[SMTP:rohit@fdr.ics.uci.edu]
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999 12:48 PM
> To: Iyengar, Sridhar
> Cc: FoRK@xent.ics.uci.edu
> Subject: Re: XMI and UCI and you
>
> Yep, we've been discussing XMI and related work in the halls, and I did
> notice your invovlement in the project -- but I sent it out just the same
> :-)
>
> I walked through the MOF DTDs with Dan Connolly and I have a slightly
> better
> understanding of it, but it took a step back to understand it: it's an XML
> format for storing MOF data, rather than an "XMLized" data structure
> (meaning.
> "it took a while to disentangle why all tags seemed to allow all other
> tags
> in their content models")
>
> Currently, for example, I'm reengineering the UCI C2 development
> environment to migrate from an archoitecture derscription language as
> EBNF to an extensible XML structure and facing the same dilemma: do I
> lexically represent what was already in the old C2SADL parse tree, or
> create fresh constructs and leverage hyperlinking to replace the old
> style of lexical references? [And then, of coure , how can I let other
> elements of the IDE annotate UML diagramming info and so on].
>
> In that sense, I feel I'm crawling around the XMI problem space --
> thus distressing me that I can't (yet) figure out if I need it, and if
> so, how to use it (hack it).
>
> I'm sorry we haven't met, but briefly, on your campus visits. Perhaps
> we will have a chance to discuss these developments soon. For example,
> it would be very exciting to bring the current industry perspective on
> model exchange into Prof. Taylor's classroom...
>
> Best,
> Rohit Khare
> 626 806 7574
>
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>
> Rohit
>
> I have discussed XMI with Jim Whitehead et al at UCI. I did find your
> e-mail commentary a fresh break from the other dreary e-mails. We are
> discussing some joint projects with UCI already.
>
> By the way the MOF (Meta Object Facility) is OMG's metadata repository
> standard and is used to generate CORBA (Or whatever) interfaces for
> programmatic access to metadata.
>
> Cheer
> Sridhar
>
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> Sridhar Iyengar
> Unisys Fellow
> sridhar.iyengar@mv.unisys.com
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