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The "logical" metamodel should be a layer over the physical metamodel and classpath, which would contain roughly the same classes as the physical one, but directly associated with each other instead of using symbolic refs. There has to be a way how to denote or express an association to a non-existent entity, or at least a way how to put that information into the lower layer. The metamodel may be split into parts, for performance reasons: 1. metamodel, which would bind together physical metamodel instances according to the classpath hiding rules and leaves space for broken links. This part must be persistently stored. Ideally, there will be only associations in this part. 2. metamodel, which would contain instances for convenient access of most users, but is a candidate for being transient and being derived from the (1) and the physical/classpath metamodels.
Adjusting milestone for planning
target milestone -> TDB (removed from 4.0)
We have a full metamodel of java in nb4.0.