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Re: ORM Metamodel

jportalfraga — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:59:27 GMT

... I was absolutely wrong when I tried to match "general concept" to an ORM object type. Actually, now I think a better approximation to the interpretation of

Re: ORM Metamodel

Clifford Heath — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:26:23 GMT

... I assume you're using the diagram at the start of SBVR section 8.1 (snapshot below for those who don't have it open). The definition of "general concept"

Re: ORM Metamodel

jportalfraga — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:13:40 GMT

What about using "GeneralConcept" instead of "Concept" for better matching with SBVR? It could also be used "FactTypeForm" instead of "Reading". I prefer to

Re: ORM Metamodel

Clifford Heath — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:19:17 GMT

... For a concept to have "the same meaning", it must play exactly the same set of roles. Please re-read my definition of "meaning" from my previous message.

Re: ORM Metamodel

jportalfraga — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:55:27 GMT

Thanks Clifford, Therefore, the word "Concept" has the same meaning as ORM2 ObjectType, and it doesn't denote the same thing as SBVR "Concept" term at all. I

Re: ORM Metamodel

Clifford Heath — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:56:14 GMT

... To be perfectly flippant, "Concept" means exactly what the model says it means ;-). That is, this model *defines* its own meaning for Concept. It's in the

ORM Metamodel

jportalfraga — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:57:16 GMT

Hi all, Regarding Data Constellation ORM Metamodel http://www.dataconstellation.com/ActiveFacts/examples/ORM/Metamodel.orm Does the term 'Concept' stand for

ActiveFacts forges ahead!

Clifford Heath — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:56:12 GMT

Folk, Just a quick status message to revive this email/NTTP channel. You might be reading this because of your subscription on Yahoo, or using the NNTP feed

RMap implemented

Clifford Heath — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:42:46 GMT

Folk, Over the weekend, I implemented RMap - the part that chooses which object types will be tables in a third-normal-form database. I had previously

ActiveFacts update

Clifford Heath — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:44:48 GMT

Folk on the information_modeling list (and others). Just a quick update so you know what I've been doing with ActiveFacts recently. When I last wrote, I was

Re: http://dataconstellation.com/ActiveFacts/

Rich Morin — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:10:06 GMT

... Kind of. The serial comma is used in cases where there are three or more items in a list, as: A, B, or C D, E, and F Tom Christiansen, of Perl fame, likes

Re: http://dataconstellation.com/ActiveFacts/

Clifford Heath — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:22:06 GMT

Rich (and other information_modelers), Thanks. I had picked up one or two typos, but your detailed review is very valuable. I'll apply the changes soon. My

ActiveFacts project status and description updated

Clifford Heath — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:28:17 GMT

Folk, A reasonably current description of the ActiveFacts project and status has been uploaded to . The

Re: Speculative/pre-alpha mock of a Ruby factual-class with Og style

Clifford Heath — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:25:41 GMT

... Certainly... like: "how is a business analyst supposed to verify this?", "what's with all the : => { } symbols?", "what's a module, a class, an

Speculative/pre-alpha mock of a Ruby factual-class with Og style dec

pitcat_regime — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:26:35 GMT

Hi The following is purely speculative and incomplete :) http://www.paste2.org/p/10458 There may no doubt be more a transparent and succinct syntax, but it was