06/2008 - Meta Integration releases new Web 2.0 enabled MIMB 6.0

Meta Integration® Model Bridge (MIMB)
"Metadata Integration" Solution

Documentation "User Guide"

"New" MIMB (Works) Desktop Documentation

"Older" (Visual) MIMB Classic Documentation

1. Getting Started with MIMB Desktop
2. MIMB Desktop Model Import
1. Importing a model
2. Bridge Options
3. Consistency Check
3. MIMB Desktop Model Viewer
1. Introduction
2. Searching for an element
4. MIMB Desktop Model Export
1. Exporting a model
2. Bridge Options
3. Subsetting
4. One file per Package/Diagram
5. Package and class subsetting
6. Remote MIMB Web Service Bridge Execution
5. MIMB Desktop Preferences
1. Import Preferences
2. Export Preferences
3. General Preferences
4. Import Advanced Options

MIMB Desktop Model Import

Importing a model

For most tools the first step in importing a model into MIMB is to save that model into the design tool's "export format". See the bridges section for more details on how to export the models from each design tool.

Once you have the model in the format supported by MIMB you should:

1. Select the design tool you want to import from,
2. Specify the path of the import file/directory,
3. Possibly modify the default bridge options,
4. Optionally specify a consistency check level,
5. Click on the "Import Model" button.

By default, if the bridge has options, the bridge options window is displayed when you click on the "Import Model" button. In this window, modify the values if necessary, then click on the OK button to start the execution of the bridge. If you click on the Cancel button the execution is aborted. See the Bridge Options dialog box to know how to change this default.

Bridge Options

When available, you can change the behavior of the bridge by modifying one or more of its options. Just click the Options... button after selecting the bridge in order to obtain the Bridge Options dialog box.

To modify an option, simply select the option line and double click in the value area. You will then be allowed to choose a new value from a predefined list or to enter a specific value.

Click on the OK button to make your changes effective for the next executions of the bridge. Note that these values are not kept when you change the current import tool.

You can save permanently the values you have set by clicking on the Save button. If you switch to another tool and back to this one or if you stop the tool and restart it, the values you have saved will be restablished.

The Defaults button allows you to reset the values to the default values provided by the bridge.

If the Show options on Import/Export box is checked, this options window will be displayed automatically when you start the bridge. This is useful when you start using the tool and don't know the options of the bridge you use. Once you have saved your favorite options and/or if you don't need to modify them for each execution of the bridge, you can disable this feature by deselecting the check box.
Tip: Note that if you open the options window manually (using the Options... button in main window), then starts the bridge, the option window is not displayed a second time. However, the window will be displayed on the next execution of the bridge.

Consistency check

The consistency check operation analyses the model to make sure that it respects the semantic rules defined for the MIR meta model. This includes making sure that the links cardinality are valid but also more sophisticated checks like whether a candidate key refers to only attributes of the class it is defined for.

There are three levels of consistency checks

No Consistency Check

When this level is selected no consistency check is performed. It is recommended that you only use this level if you are confident the model will be valid. Subsetting and export operation may not work properly if the source model is invalid.

Basic Consistency check

This is the recommended consistency check level.

Detailed Consistency check

This consistency check level performs more thorough consistency checking but these tests are redundant if the import bridge is correct. This option is provided mainly so that bridge developpers can check the correctness of their bridges.

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