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[solved] How to modify a profile that is already in use? [message #638933]

Sat, 13 November 2010 08:57

Thomas Neustupny
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EDIT: In the meantime, the results on this topic are documented here:
http://argouml.tigris.org/wiki/UML2%2C_Profiles_and_XMI
Happy reading!

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Dear experts,

I've read the article about using profiles ( http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/uml2/docs/articles/Intro duction_to_UML2_Profiles/article.html) and managed to create and (un)apply profiles programmatically for quite a long time. But I always run into a problem when an already used profile needs to be modified (extended/changed).

Here is the problem:

After making a change to the profile, I have to define it again to also update the Ecore representation. But then, I've got both the old and the new Ecore package in my profile. So I wonder what happens to my models that apply that profile *before* and *after* my modification and redefinition of the profile.

Questions:

Is it feasible to modify profiles, or are they ment to be read-only after defining and/or applying them?
Is it correct to let the profile evolve the way I described? It grows with each modification cicle!
Do different models refer to different "generations" of the Ecore package in the profile, and is this done intentionally?

Thanks for any clarification! (I'm struggling here for several months now)

Regards,
Thomas Neustupny

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		[solved] How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Thomas Neustupny on Sat, 13 November 2010 08:57
		Re: How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Vlad Varnica on Tue, 16 November 2010 05:22
		Re: How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Thomas Neustupny on Tue, 16 November 2010 11:15
		Re: How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Vlad Varnica on Wed, 17 November 2010 05:14
		Re: How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Thomas Neustupny on Thu, 18 November 2010 03:25
		Re: How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Thomas Neustupny on Tue, 14 December 2010 07:48
		Re: [solved] How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Thomas Neustupny on Thu, 16 December 2010 01:41
		Re: [solved] How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Rafael Chaves on Thu, 16 December 2010 12:04
		Re: [solved] How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Thomas Neustupny on Thu, 16 December 2010 13:19
		Re: [solved] How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Rafael Chaves on Thu, 16 December 2010 17:32
		Re: [solved] How to modify a profile that is already in use? By: Thomas Neustupny on Fri, 17 December 2010 04:31

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