Real-Time Collaborative Modeling across Language Workbenches – a Case on Jetbrains MPS and Eclipse Spoofax

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Cross-Platform Real-Time Collaborative Modeling: An Architecture and a Prototype Implementation via EMF.Cloud

“…This step is crucial since it is not possible to simply forward the edit operations performed on one modeling environment to all the other modeling environments. As we learned in our previous work [33], this is true even if the concrete syntax of the modeling environments is the same. Edit adaptations can act also as a filter, for example, we expect that several changes performed in graphical models might not need to be forwarded to textual modeling environments.…”

“…In our previous work, we presented a language dependent tool, Parsafix, which enables real-time collaboration among engineers working on Modelix and Saros [33]. Modelix is a real-time collaboration tool for JetBrains MPS, and Saros is a real-time collaboration tool for the Eclipse IDE (as well as IntelliJ).…”

OIL: an industrial case study in language engineering with Spoofax

“…A few months later, the first author also joined on the Spoofax implementation and both first and second authors have been maintaining this implementation ever since. During this time, the third author was involved in the design decisions for the Spoofax implementation and some master students have contributed as well [46][47][48].…”

Collaborative Model-Driven Software Engineering — A systematic survey of practices and needs in industry

“…Real-time collaboration has been identified as the main trending topic in previous studies (David et al, 2021a;Franzago et al, 2018), aligning well with its 95% industry need. Especially driven by relaxed consistency models (such as eventual consistency (Vogels, 2009) and strong eventual consistency (Preguiça et al, 2009)), the feasibility of real-time collaborative modeling has been demonstrated in conceptual modeling (Nicolaescu et al, 2018), requirements modeling (Saini and Mussbacher, 2021), cross-platform collaborative modeling (Voogd et al, 2021), and collaborative multi-level modeling (David and Syriani, 2022). A combination of Real-time collaboration and traditional Versioning (Git) has been recently implemented in WebGME (Maróti et al, 2014b).…”