Genericode

[mbormans]

Which might be a (the) good (best) way to represent the genericode-concept in EA? Could one imagine the content of a *.gc file being generated out of EA? (*.gc files can be found in UBL-2.0 packages, as i encountered them having unzipped some os-UBL-2.0.zip, which gave me a ...\cl\gc\cefact\... folder) (see also www.genericode.org)

[salayande]

It is interesting that someone has raised this.
I am surprised that the great minds who developed the UBL model in EA have not already done this.
If you go to the OASIS UBL TC site, grab hold of the UBL model in EA format and inspect it.
If it has not been implemented, contact the UBL chair.
You would be doing a great community service if you submit a feature request formally with Sparxsystems. They always deliver, maybe not as fast as we want.

Segun

[mbormans]

OK, i did find a file "UBL-2.0-Model.EAP".
It mentions in "Views" > "Schema Architecture" : "Genericode Files".
As i understand it, this is merely a representation towards things outside of this EA-model, or it is a starting point for things that must still be added into this model...
I do not yet feel confident enough to deliver myself some feature-request; could i somewhere see what such requests look like, and then use this as some example?
And again, what i have in mind is not only the representation of  genericode lists (including it's content) in EA, but also the ability of EA to generate genericode-files...
Michel

[salayande]

I will raise the feature request in that case.

kind regards

Segun

[«Midnight»]

Thanks Segun,

I'm (sort of) interested in where this will lead. The "sort of" is because we really don't know how effective or widespread this will turn out to be. Perhaps it will best be implemented as a pattern, perhaps a profile. Who knows?

Still, it might overcome some of the tightly-coupled aspects of approaches like UDEF. Or it might prove to be a natural complement.

Thanks again for taking this one up.

David

PS: I have not forgotten you; I'm still swamped.

[thomas.kilian]

You mean the snow has turned into mud now?

[«Midnight»]

Sort of, at least we think so...

Parts of (what was once) the front yard are reappearing; the rest will be no more than a foot deep by day's end.

Fortunately we had a cold weekend - some snow both Friday and Saturday morning - which slowed down the Spring melt. The Rideau river looks to have crested over the past 36 hours at somewhere between 8 and 9 feet above normal.

So we think there's a lot of mud around someplace, perhaps covering many of the local parks. We'll know more when they emerge from the water...

Then we'll finally be able to make the transition from the local Winter sport (shoveling snow) to Summer sport (shoveling mud). It's getting difficult to keep up...

David

PS: We were lucky this time. Quebec city got 5.5 meters of snow this season, and it's been quite a bit cooler there so far. Head into the suburbs there and you'd have to dig quite a way down to find any mud, frozen or otherwise.