UDML2XML

The UDML story

Oracle BI EE provides administrators and developers with UDML, a non documented and unsupported but (I think) RELIABLE feature. So... we can get UDML statements by running nqUDMLgen commands (many thanks for this feature).

An Integration story

I cannot help it... I like the idea of sharing information across applications, more so if we have the chance to expose a wealth of intelligence, semantics and metadata.

The Parser story

Ok, so... sometimes, getting the UDML version of the repository won't be enough... Let's say we need to rapidly share OBIEE metadata with another tool, e.g. a data dictionary... This is a real world scenario I found in many projects. So this is my kind of business case... a tool extracting metadata to some independent format (this time, a long-standing W3C recommendation), XML.

So, it's just: a parser utility, generating XML structures out of OBIEE UDML repository statements.

I need someone to take over the development of this tool, I won't be able to do that in the near future. If you are interested in this project, please contact me at danielgalassi@gmail.com

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