What's New in MDT?

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The Model Development Tools (MDT) project focuses on big “M” modeling within the Modeling project; its purpose is twofold: 1) to provide an implementation of industry standard metamodels and 2) to provide exemplary tools for developing models based on those metamodels. Since its launch in September of 2006, MDT has undergone two major releases and is now working towards its third release as part of the 2009 Galileo Simultaneous Release. This short talk will provide an overview of the new features and components/projects in MDT and give an update on the status of its Galileo release.

Transcript of What's New in MDT?

What’s New in MDT?

Kenn Hussey

November 19, 2008

Agenda

• Overview

• Components and Proposals

• Galileo Plan

• How Can You Help?

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Agenda

•Overview

• Components and Proposals

• Galileo Plan

• How Can You Help?

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Overview

• Model Development Tools (MDT) is an Eclipse Modeling sub-project at

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/

• Inspired by the Eclipse community’s need for more end user "tooling" from

the Modeling project

• Purpose of MDT is to provide extensible frameworks and exemplary tools

for the metamodels within the scope of the Modeling project

• Next release scheduled for June 2010 (Galileo)

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Participants

• Project lead is Kenn Hussey (Embarcadero Technologies)

• Committers currently from Adaptive, Atos Origin, Borland, CEA LIST,

Embarcadero Technologies, IBM, Integranova, LIFL, Macro Modeling,

OBEO, Prodevelop, Soyatec, XML Modeling, and Zeligsoft

• Potential future contributions from Armstrong Process Group, JPL,

Sandpiper Software, and others

• Collaborations with DTP, STP, and WTP projects

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Eclipse Members

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ODMEODM

Architecture

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

MT Compare Search XSD

Papyrus

Agenda

• Overview

•Components and Proposals

• Galileo Plan

• How Can You Help?

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Components

• Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN2)

• Information Management Metamodel (IMM)

• Object Constraint Language (OCL)

• Papyrus

• Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR)

• Unified Modeling Language 2.x (UML2)

• UML2 Tools

• XML Schema Definition (XSD)

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Components – BPMN2

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

Embarcadero TechnologiesSoyatec

Components – BPMN2

• BPMN2 is aimed at providing a metamodel implementation based on the

forthcoming Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN™ 2.0) OMG™

specification

• BPMN2 will provide• an open source "reference" implementation of the BPMN 2.0 specification

• an EMF-based foundation on which business process modeling tools can be built

• a basis for integrating and interchanging artifacts between business process modeling tools

• a forum for engaging the community in validation of the BPMN 2.0 specification

• an opportunity for increased collaboration between Eclipse and the OMG

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Components – IMM

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

AdaptiveEmbarcadero TechnologiesXML Modeling

Components – IMM

• IMM is aimed at providing metamodel/profile implementations based on

the forthcoming Information Management Metamodel (IMM) OMG

specification

• IMM will provide • an open source "reference" implementation of the IMM specification

• an EMF-based foundation on which information management modeling tools can be built

• a basis for integrating and interchanging artifacts between information management modeling tools

• a forum for engaging the community in validation of the IMM specification

• an opportunity for increased collaboration between Eclipse and the OMG

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Components – OCL

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

Zeligsoft

Components – OCL

• OCL is an implementation of the Object Constraint Language (OCL) OMG

specification for EMF-based models

• OCL provides• APIs for parsing and evaluating OCL constraints and queries

• an Ecore implementation of the OCL abstract syntax model, including support for serialization of

parsed OCL expressions

• a visitor API for analyzing/transforming the AST model of OCL expressions

• an extensibility API for clients to customize the parsing and evaluation environments used by the

parser

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Components – Papyrus

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

Atos OriginCEA LISTIntegranovaLIFLOBEOProdevelopXML Modeling

Components – Papyrus

• Papyrus is a new component aimed at providing an integrated, user-

consumable environment for editing models based on UML and other

related languages such as SysML

• Papyrus will provide an integration and extension means for• diagram editors

• profile design and support mechanisms

• generic modeling tools (search, validaton, etc.)

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Components – SBVR

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

XML Modeling

Components – SBVR

• SBVR is aimed at providing a metamodel implementation and sample tools

based on the adopted

Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) OMG

specification

• SBVR will provide• an open source "reference" implementation of the SBVR specification

• an EMF-based foundation on which business vocabulary and business rules modeling tools can be

built

• a basis for integrating and interchanging artifacts between business vocabulary and business rules

tools

• a forum for engaging the community in validation of the SBVR specification

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Components – UML2

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

Embarcadero TechnologiesIBM

Components – UML2

• UML2 is an EMF-based implementation of the

Unified Modeling Language 2.x OMG specification for the Eclipse platform

• UML2 provides• a useable implementation of the metamodel to support the development of modeling tools

• a common XMI® schema to facilitate interchange of semantic models

• test cases as a means of validating the specification

• validation rules as a means of defining and enforcing levels of compliance

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Components – UML2 Tools

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

Borland

Components – UML2 Tools

• UML2 Tools is a set of GMF-based editors for viewing and editing UML®

models

• UML2 Tools provides editors for• class diagrams

• profile diagrams

• component diagrams

• state machine diagrams

• activity diagrams

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Components – XSD

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

Embarcadero TechnologiesIBMMacro Modeling

Components – XSD

• XSD is a reference library that provides an API for use with any code that

examines, creates, or modifies documents based on the XML Schema

W3C® standard

• XSD provides APIs for• manipulating components of an XML Schema

• manipulating the DOM™-accessible representation of XML Schema as a series of XML documents

• keeping these representations in agreement as schemas are modified

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Proposals

• Metamodel Specification Tools (MST)

• Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM)

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Proposals – MST

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

AdaptiveArmstrong Process GroupEmbarcadero TechnologiesJPL

Proposals – MST

• MST is a proposed new subproject of MDT to provide tooling for the

development of MOF compliant metamodels, and specifications based on

them

• MST would• customize and/or extend the existing (or forthcoming) UML editors (primarily for class and

package/profile diagrams) to expose CMOF concepts which are missing in UML (like identifiers,

namespace URIs, and XMI tags)

• leverage the CMOF (de)serialization support provided the UML2 component

• provide a mechanism for generating a specification (or at least a decent boiler plate for one) directly

from the metamodel using BIRT

• automate the mapping between a metamodel and its profile representation (if there is one)

• make use of the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) to document and coordinate the specification

development process

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Proposals – ODM

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Platform

EMFGEF

MST

Papyrus

UML2 Tools

GMF

VF OCL UML2 BPMN2SBVR

IMM

ODMMT Compare Search XSD

Sandpiper Software

Proposals – ODM

• ODM is a proposed new subproject of MDT to provide metamodel

implementations and sample tools based on the

Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) OMG specification

• ODM would include• sample tools and artifacts supporting the development of ODM-compliant terminologies, taxonomies,

topic maps, and ontologies

• semi-automated transformations across the knowledge representation paradigms that comprise the

ODM, including the declarative subset of UML and MOF

• functionality to enable use of ODM-based vocabularies in other software engineering activities, such

as rule set development using the OMG Production Rule Representation (PRR) specification or, for

example, in data modeling via mappings to the emerging IMM specification

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Agenda

• Overview

• Components and Proposals

•Galileo Plan

• How Can You Help?

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Themes – Galileo

• Appeal to a Broader Community

• Community Support

• Compliance

• Extensibility

• Release Currency

• Sample Tools

• Usability

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Plan Items – BPMN2 0.7

• Compliance• BPMN 2.0 Metamodel

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Plan Items – IMM 0.7

• Compliance• E/R Metamodel

• Core Metamodel

• E/R Profile

• Relational Profile

• XML Schema Profile

• XMI for XML Schema Metamodel

• XMI for Relational Metamodel

• LDAP Metamodel

• LDAP Profile

• Traceability Metamodel

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Plan Items – OCL 1.3

• Appeal to a Broader Community• Reorganize features to better reflect dependencies

• Adding the edit and editor plugin to have OCL models editable in the EMF’s Sample Ecore Editor

• Improve BigDecimal support

• Need eCONTENT_TYPE

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Plan Items – OCL 1.3

• Extensibility• Provide a general support for parameterized type resolution by custom OCL environments

• Adding a parsing option to exclude non-standard operations from OCL Standard library

• OperationCallExp arguments_conform constraint looks up operation

• There is currently no way to un-define an operation

• OCL's type checking system needs to be extensible

• InvOrDefCS irregularities

• Adopt Eclipse API Tooling

• Use resolved operation name to determine OperationCallExp.opcode

• Bug in AbstractEnvironment when looking up implicit sources

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Plan Items – OCL 1.3

• Release Currency• OCL Specification Currency

• Maintain Currency with EMF, UML2 Templates

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Plan Items – SBVR 0.7

• Compliance• Load and Save XMI compliant with SBVR 1.0

• SBVR test cases

• Enhance model validation

• SBVR 1.1 compliance

• SBVR exchange document metamodel

• SBVR metamodel for tool developers

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Plan Items – SBVR 0.7

• Sample Tools• Sample SBVR editor and menus

• Project Explorer navigator view

• Import business vocabulary from UML

• Transform SBVR to Platform-Independent Models (PIM)

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Plan Items – UML2 3.0

• Community Support• Stereotypes and their values are not copied in UML Editor

• UML2 runtime feature has many dependencies and includes too many unnecessary plugins for clients wanting only to use UML API to create/manipulate UML models

• Genmodel copyright fields setting ignored for operations classes

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Plan Items – UML2 3.0

• Compliance• UML2 Implementation Bug - Redefinable Template Signature does not conform to OMG Spec

• Property should not specialize TemplateableElement

• UML 2.2 Compliance

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Plan Items – UML2 3.0

• Extensibility• Adopt Eclipse API Tooling

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Plan Items – UML2 3.0

• Release Currency• Support for conversion of owned ends

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Plan Items – UML2 Tools 0.9

• Compliance• Sequence Diagram support

• Interaction diagrams support

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Plan Items – UML2 Tools 0.9

• Usability• Basic OCL integration

• Audits/Metrics integration

• Extended profiling support

• Diagram specific property sheets

• Structure diagrams synchronization

• Diagram relations

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Agenda

• Overview

• Components and Proposals

• Galileo Plan

•How Can You Help?

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How Can You Help?

• Develop and use tools based on MDT components

• Report bugs

• Participate in newsgroup discussions

• Write articles

• Become an MDT contributor!

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