Model-Driven Development in the Enterprise

Uhl, Axel

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“…• Model evaluation: tools can offer support for model analysis and evaluation [7], Evaluation is referred to as observability or "model-level debugging" [12] when the reporting of warnings and errors is done during the creation of the model and the execution of the transformations-similarly to how compilers do for programming languages.…”

Section: Qualities Of Model-driven Development Toolsmentioning

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Implementing the Unifying Meta-model for Enterprise Modeling and Model-Driven Development: An Experience Report

Zikra

2012

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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Abstract. Model-Driven Development (MDD) is becoming increasingly popular as a choice for developing information systems. Tools that support the principles of MDD are also growing in number and variety of available functionality. MetaEdit+ is a meta-modeling tool used for developing Domain Specific Languages and is identified as an MDD tool. The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and Graphical Modeling Project (GMP) are two Eclipse projects that provide plug-ins to support the principles of MDD. In this paper, we report on our experience in using MetaEdit+ and the Eclipse plug-ins for developing a graphical editor for the unifying meta-model, which is an MDD approach that extends the traditional view of MDD to cover Enterprise Modeling. The two modeling environments are reviewed using quality areas that are identified by the research community as necessary in MDD tools. This report will provide useful insights for researchers and practitioners alike concerning the use of MetaEdit+ and the Eclipse plug-ins as MDD tools.Keywords: Model-Driven Development, Tools, MetaEdit+, Eclipse Modeling Framework, Graphical Modeling Project. IntroductionThe increasing reliance on Model-Driven Development (MDD) for creating Information Systems (IS) in recent years has led to a stream of research projects, approaches, and tools that support the use of models as the main development artifacts. Models in MDD are used to capture various aspects of an IS, and (automatic) transformations enable the derivation of models from each other and generate executable code. Attempts to extend the use of MDD to describe the organization are starting to emerge [2,6,9]. Models can be used to capture the underlying motivation for which IS are developed, which provides deeper understanding of the IS models and improves the design decisions that are made. In order to capitalize on the full potential of MDD principles, MDD approaches need to be supported with tools to facilitate the creation and management of models, meta-models, and transformations. Tools also enable the execution of model transformations and, eventually, code generation. Aside from that, tools should offer practical and usable functionalities that simplify the complexity associated with managing models and transformations [4].

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Implementing the Unifying Meta-model for Enterprise Modeling and Model-Driven Development: An Experience Report

Zikra

2012

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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“…There are two different possibilities how model repositories can handle links between model elements: either by defining designated key attributes for each model element (as, e.g., in EMF/Ecore) or by assigning each element a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) that remains stable across the lifetime of the element (e.g, the MOFID in MOF 1.4) [3,4]. Very important issues arise when trying to put a parser-based approach on top of a repository that uses UUIDs to identify model elements.…”

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“…In distributed development where developers of one artefact do not always know all referrers from other model partitions to a specific model element it is crucial that elements have stable IDs. Further advantages of the UUID-based approach can be found in [3].…”

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“…A solution that lets transformations produce stable UUIDs for new model elements was proposed in [4]. Such an approach may, for example, use the ID of the source element and some transformation ID to compute the ID of the target element.…”

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“…However, for a CTS approach to prove applicable in an enterprise and in a large scale environment a lot of requirements have to be met [3,4]. Important requirements are for instance the incremental updating of existing models and the support for UUID-based repositories or the definition of partial and/or combined views.…”

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Classification of Concrete Textual Syntax Mapping Approaches

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Uhl³

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Model Driven Architecture – Foundations and Applications

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Abstract. Textual concrete syntaxes for models are beneficial for many reasons. They foster usability and productivity because of their fast editing style, their usage of error markers, autocompletion and quick fixes. Furthermore, they can easily be integrated into existing tools such as diff/merge or information interchange through e-mail, wikis or blogs. Several frameworks and tools from different communities for creating concrete textual syntaxes for models emerged during recent years. However, these approaches failed to provide a solution in general. Open issues are incremental parsing and model updating as well as partial and federated views. To determine the capabilities of existing approaches, we provide a classification schema, apply it to these approaches, and identify their deficiencies.

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Towards an Incremental Update Approach for Concrete Textual Syntaxes for UUID-Based Model Repositories

Goldschmidt

2009

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Model-Driven Development in the Enterprise

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Implementing the Unifying Meta-model for Enterprise Modeling and Model-Driven Development: An Experience Report

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Classification of Concrete Textual Syntax Mapping Approaches

Towards an Incremental Update Approach for Concrete Textual Syntaxes for UUID-Based Model Repositories

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