Basic concepts

Rationale

TODO: unique identifiers for entities like structural components, really making sure that an entity is the same as another in distributed team work

TODO

Management of shared modelling concepts using export/import or shared repository
Full-featured inspection of old versions
Version comparison analysis tools

A unique identifier can be attached to any resource with the L0.identifier relation:

    >-- L0.identifier <R L0.HasProperty : L0.FunctionalRelation
        L0.HasLabel "Identifier"
        --> L0.GUID

The version identifier is a binary GUID and its values can be handled using the utility bean class org.simantics.datatypes.literal.
Identifiers are only given to structural configuration components and composites in a model configuration, not diagram elements. This makes it possible to perform global comparisons between versions of a model.

TODO