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[news.eclipse.technology.omelet] Re: Meta-models as types (was Re: Welcome to OMELET)

Correction:

"Ed Willink" <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:cbmjtl$mkn$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In order to support compound transformations, it is essential to be able
to
> instantiate a meta-model many times and this is easy when a meta-model is
> instantiated as a 'class', so that each distinct instantiation can have a
> distinct
> 'instance' name. If this treatment is not supported by MOF, then perhaps
> MOF needs to define/recognise MetaModel as a Class. Similarly, a QVT
> transformation defines a transformation meta-model that is instantiated
> as many times as necessary to transform application meta-model instances.

Of course a meta-model is not instantiated, rather a suitable root class
within the
meta-model is instantiated, so there is no need for a MOF MetaModel to be a
Class.

    Regards

        Ed Willink