Dear All,
Given we have a lot of archetypes which are then further versioned etc
moving archetypes from one version to another can become a real pain
based on their inherited content.
i.e. if B.v1 specializes A.v1 then it includes the content of A.v1
If we then create an A.v2 & wish to create a B.v2 which specialises A.v2
(or even we have a b.v1draft which we we to change to
specializing/extending A.v2) a manual process must ensue so that the
content brought in from A.v2 replaces the content brought n from A.v1.
I have heard comment that this is changing so that Archetypes become
like normal classes i.e. the superclass content does not appear in the
subclass & if a given method does appear in the subclass then it
overrides that in the superclass.
A) Is this so? If not it should be
B) If this is so, any ideas wrt dates & tooling etc to support this (inc
wrt the java tooling)?
TIA
Adam
Thomas Beale wrote:
Hi Adam,
Adam Flinton wrote:
Dear All,
Given we have a lot of archetypes which are then further versioned etc
moving archetypes from one version to another can become a real pain
based on their inherited content.
i.e. if B.v1 specializes A.v1 then it includes the content of A.v1
If we then create an A.v2 & wish to create a B.v2 which specialises A.v2
(or even we have a b.v1draft which we we to change to
specializing/extending A.v2) a manual process must ensue so that the
content brought in from A.v2 replaces the content brought n from A.v1.
I have heard comment that this is changing so that Archetypes become
like normal classes i.e. the superclass content does not appear in the
subclass & if a given method does appear in the subclass then it
overrides that in the superclass.
A) Is this so? If not it should be
it is certainly the case. See the latest Archetype Workbench for details
-
http://www.openehr.org/svn/ref_impl_eiffel/TRUNK/apps/doc/adl_workbench_help.htm
Start the AWB, set its repository to where your archetypes are, then hit
F7. You will see all archetypes being compiled, and .adls files being
created by differencing the existing .adl files. Have a look at the
.adls files of some specialised archetypes in a text editor. Also, you
can use the 'flat' and 'differential' views in the workbench to show the
effects of he new representation.
Oh good. This will help. Thanks.
B) If this is so, any ideas wrt dates & tooling etc to support this (inc
wrt the java tooling)?
I can't speak for the Java tooling, but the new version of the reference
ADL parser (which is in the workbench) will go into the Archetype Editor
during the next few months. Other changes that will be included are
described in the new specialisation semantics in the ADL specification.
See
http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/spec/openEHR+Templates+and+Specialised+Archetypes
for details.
As ever the speed of this work is dependent on funding.
- thomas beale
Yup this is part of my problem wrt knowing which implementations are at
which level etc.etc
Adam