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NAME

UMMF::Import::UMMFModel - Parses an ad-hoc metamodel description.

SYNOPSIS

use UMMF::Import::UMMFModel;
my $importer = UMMF::Import::UMMFModel->new('factory' => $factory);
my $importer->import($metametamodel_desc);

DESCRIPTION

This package is used to generate a UML model from the UML metamodels and other metamodel definitions found in lib/ummf/model.

The model can then be passed to UMMF::Export::Perl or other exporters.

This importer sends ModelElement construction events to a UMMF::Core::Builder object during parsing. The builder creates the ModelElement objects through a factory and connects them up after the are all instantiated.

USAGE

Basic syntax:

Model "MyModel" {
  Package Bar {
    Primitive Integer;
    Primitive Float;
    Primitive String;

    Class ClassA {
      attr1 : Integer;
      attr2 : String[0..*] {unordered};
    }
    Class ClassB : ClassA {
      attr3 : ClassA;
    }
  }
}

EXPORT

None exported.

TODO

Support MOF and UML 2.0 syntaxes.

NOTES

The MOF specifies interfaces to a MOF meta-meta-model with CORBA IDL. Rather that having to analyze the IDL to infer Associations; I first started with this mini-language. At some point however, maintaining the MetaMetaModel.spec document will be more difficult as UML progesses.

AUTHOR

Kurt Stephens, kstephens@users.sourceforge.net 2003/04/06

SEE ALSO

UMMF::Core::Factory UMMF::Core::Builder

VERSION

$Revision: 1.4 $

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