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

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

Description "Reference Guide"

1. Technology Overview
   1. Metadata Movement Use Cases
   2. Metadata Movement Solutions
   3. Business Intelligence Metadata Engineering
2. Known Limitations
3. Frequently Asked Questions
   1. FAQ on Internationalization & Encodings
   2. FAQ on OMG XMI for UML and CWM
   3. FAQ on Microsoft Visio
   4. FAQ on Microsoft Repository

MIMB FAQ on OMG XMI

The OMG provides a standard called XMI for XML based Metadata Intechange. XMI can be used to carry UML based object modeling metadata, as well as CWM based Data Warehousing related metadata. See diagram below for more details:

Meta Integration Model Bridge (MIMB) supports multiple versions of the CWM UML and CWM standards, themselves under different versions of the OMG XMI encoding. The next two sections provide more details on the versions of UML and CWM metamodels, with their respective versions of XMI encoding, as supported by various tool vendors. These standards and their tool implementations are evolving, therefore these tables may not be up to date with respect to the latest versions.

It is important to know that these tables are expressed from the MIMB "import from" and "export to" bridge perspective, which is different than the source and destination tool perspective, therefore make sure you understand the diagram below, before reading these tables.

Finally, the following grahical conventions are used to expressed the actual tool support:

Legend
	Supported by MIMB
X	Not yet fully supported by MIMB
	Currently not available in any of the vendor's tool versions

Unified Modeling Language (UML)

The following table is a brief summary of the UML compatibility and coverage of various supported tools:

							OMG Current
MIMB Bridge	Vendor / Tool / Version	UML 1.1	UML 1.3			UML 1.4	UML 1.5		UML 2.0
		XMI 1.0	XMI 1.0	XMI 1.1	XMI 1.2	XMI 1.1	XMI 1.1	XMI 1.2	XMI 2.1
From	OMG UML 1.1
To
From	OMG UML 1.3
To
From	OMG UML 1.4
To
From	OMG UML 1.5
To
From	OMG UML 2.0
To
From	Tigris Argo/UML v0.7
To
From	Tigris Argo/UML v0.8+
To
From	Gentleware Poseidon v1.2+
To
From	CA AllFusion Component Modeler 4.x
To
From	CA Advantage Joe v3.0			X
To
From	Sybase PowerDesigner OOM v9.x
To
From	TogetherSoft Control Center v4.2+			X		X
To
From	Embarcadero Describe v5.7+
To
From	Microsoft Visio 2002
To
From	IBM XMI Toolkit v1.0-1.15
To
From	Unisys XMI Interchange v2.0 for Rose
To
From	Unisys Rose UML v1.1
To
From	Telelogic Tau v4.3
To
From	Softeam Objecteering/UML v4+
To
From	Ideogramic UML v2.3
To
From	Adaptive Repository & Foundation 2.x
To

Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM)

The following table is a brief summary of the CWM compatibility and coverage of various supported tools:

			OMG Current
MIMB Bridge	Vendor / Tool / Version	CWM 1.0	CWM 1.1	CWM 1.2	CWM 2.0	Vendor's CWM Coverage
		XMI 1.1	XMI 1.1	XMI 1.1	XMI 2.1
From	OMG CWM 1.0					All
To
From	OMG CWM 1.1
To
From	OMG CWM 1.2
To
From	OMG CWM 2.0
To
From	SAS Institute Data Integration Studio					Relational, Transformation, Warehouse Process
To
From	Adaptive Repository & Foundation 2.x+					All
To
From	Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) 9i					Relational, Transformation, OLAP
To
From	BusinessObjects DataIntegrator 6.0 Acta ActaWorks 5.x					Relational
To
From	Hyperion Application Builder					Relational, OLAP
To
From	IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Center 7.2					Relational, Transformation, Warehouse Process
To
From	Informatica PowerMart 6.x					Relational
To

As of version 4.0.0, MIMB supports the following CWM packages: Object Core, DataTypes, Keys/Indexes, ObjectOriented, Relational, Transformation and OLAP.

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