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List:       kde-kuml-devel
Subject:    RE: XMI and CORBA
From:       "Baak, E.J.M." <baak () ecn ! nl>
Date:       2000-10-18 14:33:23
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>   I didn't say that Ed.  Actually I said just the opposite.  There's
> nothing preventing
> one from inventing some other convention for UML model interfaces and
> still using XMI
> to store the data.  XMI and the CORBAFacility are two different things
> which happen to both
> derive from the same MOF model.
	[Baak, E.J.M.]  Things go fast in real life, the lights started
burning for me just after i pressed the send button ;-) i'm sorry i have
referred to you abusively.
>  
>   But just because its possible doesn't mean I think we should do it.
> Similar arguments
> hold for the CORBAFacility as for XMI.  Designing good interfaces or good
> file formats
> is hard.  Probably harder than implementing them.  Since the OMG has
> already done that work
> for us I don't see any reason not to use it.
	[Baak, E.J.M.]  Agree

>   Another big advantage to using the OMG CORBA
> intrefaces is that they exist now.  That means that there's nothing
> preventing us from
> starting to write code that uses them, even if we don't have them fully
> implemented yet.  
> If we design ou own interfaces then we'll have to wait until the design
> stage s finished 
> (or at least well underway) before we start writing code for the parts of
> the system which
> depend on those interfaces.
	[Baak, E.J.M.]  Ok, ok i'm convinced. What i would like to know next
is how this all is going to look like into a little architecture. Thats what
Jonathan is writing about currently with all his components.

	Ed.

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