Generate code from XMI files

Question

Hi,
I want to generate Java code from XMI files. Is JMI the right way? If so: I found the JMI specification but not the classes. Can anybody tell me where they are hidden?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Phil

Answer 1

you can find some info about a project (MDR) that uses jmi here:
http://mdr.netbeans.org/architecture.html#jmi
http://mdr.netbeans.org/docs.html
As I understand it, jmi provides a standard way to generate java interfaces to MOF models. So code generation focused on jmi is usually only interesting for metamodel repository developers.
If you like the idea of JMI, you could build on top of a tool that is JMI compliant. You could extend MDR. Or you could extend a template based tool like AndroMDA,http://www.andromda.org, which itself is built on MDR.
Or, you could forget MOF and JMI and work with Eclipse EMF which provides java generation capabilities. http://www.eclipse.org/emf/
If you want to generate from xmi directly then you are looking at building your own tool using DOM or XSLT etc. but it would be better to read the xmi into a metamodelling tool/repository and use the services they provide.
Anyway you need to get your xmi from somewhere, and that source will restrict your choice for code generation.
You could use/buy a tool like Together, but it doesn't look like you are interested in that.