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The only way to improve productivity at any
time of the life cycle is not to change the way
you work but by understanding and adding modeling
value to your daily job. Many vendors are just
using UML 1.x or 2.0 annotation and
MDA. Is this enough ?
A
modern modeling solution should:
- Include a powerful UML2 graphical
presentation (GEF) , customizable java code
generator (Jet, Velocity and EMF) and use
the XMI 2.0 metamodel.
- Interact between these elements
inside a native Eclipse integration.
- Reverse a full project including all the
information needed (not just pieces of
information as other UML tools vendors do):
- Use a MDA approach. Omondo is looking
for technological partners to work together
in building professional MDA
solutions onto the EclipseUML2 metamodel:
UML
Profiles were first introduced in Unified Modeling
Language 1.3. It was a way to extend the
standard modeling language.
Architects/developers tried to integrate specific business
needs. Unfortunately this was not possible at
the time
because of technological limitations and UML 1.x
use. In UML 2.0, we have a
mechanism to extend the UML
based on stereotypes.
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EclipseUML2
Studio
now allows architects/developers to work
together in a rational way and to add specific
business needs.
The Eclipse Platform allows each plugin to
interact with other plugins. Both UML2 extension mechanisms
and EclipseUML allow architects/developers
to meet any specific business modeling need and add their "touch" to the UML
inside the Eclipse platform.
Omondo decided to launch the UML2 profiles
research project 18 months ago. The goal was to
respect the UML2 profile requirements, use both
UML2 graphical presentation and XMI 2.0 and
allow our corporate customers to add their own
framework inside EclipseUML. The decision was to
rebuild all our existing core and migrate from NSUML to
the EclipseUML2 metamodel:
Several profiles can be applied to the same
model using a stable and standardized core. It
is possible to add J2ee, database, JSF (coming
soon) etc.. profiles to a project in order
to work inside a predefined UML configuration. Omondo's
current technological projects related to
profiles are:
- Hibernate profile - adding Persistence
inside the class diagram which is being
connected live to the UML2 metamodel and generating java code.
- JavaServer profile - model and use the
profile mechanism inside the activity (or
class) diagram to model and deploy.
Dynamic changes during the development
life cycle using use case/class diagram and
profile mechanisms, will be covered at the
end of the year 2005. We are currently working
on a new project whose goal is to dynamically integrate any third
party methodology. Having a tight integration between UML
and Methods is important, as much as selecting
the right methods. This is why we consider that
we should not provide an out of the box bundled
solution. We prefer to allow each
company to add its own methods corresponding to
its own business requirements onto Eclipse using
EclipseUML2 Studio extensions.
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