MDR Documentation Index

High-level Documents

• MDR Whitepaper - overview of MDR and related standards.
• MDR in Press
  • Sun hails open-source meta data repository
• Related Standards - Simple description of all the related standards including MOF, XMI and JMI.

User's Guides

• Installation Instructions - This document will guide you through the MDR installation.
• First Steps with MDR - Simple guide for MDR beginners.
• Example of Using MDR - Simple example of MDR usage.
• MDR Explorer - User's documentation for MDR Explorer module.
• JDBC Persistence - Documentation for JDBC persistence plugin, which can be downloaded from the file area.

Developer's Guides

• Architecture - Higher level description of MDR architecture.
• MDR API Javadoc - On-line version of Javadoc for MDR API. Downloadable ZIP file containing MDR API Javadoc can be found here.
• API Changes - Log of MDR API changes history.
• Additional Indexes - Documentation for creation and usage of Additional Indexes.
• Providing Custom Implementation of JMI Interfaces - Guide on how to create implementation of derived attributes, operations and modeled constraints.
• Transient Metadata Documentation for MDR Transient Metadata extension.
• Running JMI TCK with MDR - Step-by-step guide for running JMI TCK on MDR.

Extras

• UML2MOF Tool
• MDR Ant Tasks

Samples

• Simple XML Module

Resources

• Metamodels Catalog - Links to known MOF metamodels together with helper XMI files containing JMI tags where necessary.
• Useful Links - Useful links to related websites.

Community

• Users of MDR - Few words about companies that use MDR in their products.
• Credits - List of people from out of the MDR team that contributed significantly.

Other...

• FAQs
• Troubleshooting