[teiid-designer-dev] other model types

[John Verhaeg]

On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Steven Hawkins wrote:

> Quick question.
> 
> The current xsd for the vdb.xml file allows for PHYSICAL, FUNCTION, and VIRTUAL model types.
> 
> What about the other legacy types (which were stored in the old manifest model)?
> TYPE
> VDB_ARCHIVE
> UNKNOWN
> CONFIGURATION
> METAMODEL
> EXTENSION
> LOGICAL
> MATERIALIZATION (a subtype of physical?)
> 
> Outside of matrerialization, the only information related to these models that was used at runtime was the ConfigurationInfo.def model visibility entry to determine if the corresponding .xmi file could be retrieved.

I don't yet know of any reason why we'd need the other types, especially some of the weirder things like METAMODEL, UNKNOWN, or VDB_ARCHIVE.  I'm pretty sure the CONFIGURATION option doesn't apply anymore since we've combined it with the manifest.

Thanks,

JPAV