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MDEForge: an extensible Web-based modeling platform
MDeforge is an extensible web-based modeling platform proposed to enhance the adoption of model-driven engineering (MDE) technologies by providing a community-based repository of modeling artifacts. It addresses challenges such as the limited discovery and reuse of existing artifacts and the complexities of installing software packages by offering model management tools as software as a service. Future work will focus on supporting advanced queries, managing different installations, and tackling cloud computing issues like scalability.
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MDEForge: an extensible Web-based modeling platform
- 1. MDEForge: an extensible Web-based modeling platform Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell’Informazione e Matematica Università degli Studi dell’Aquila Francesco Basciani Juri Di Rocco Davide Di Ruscio Amleto Di Salle Ludovico Iovino Alfonso Pierantonio
- 2. 2 Introduction Overthe last decades many MDE technologies have been conceived to support a wide range of modeling and model management activities CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 3. 3 Challenges •A wider adoption of MDE technologies is still an CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain issue* * Whittle, J., Hutchinson, J., Rouncefield, M., Burden, H., Heldal, R.: Industrial Adoption of Model- Driven Engineering: Are the Tools Really the Problem? In: MODELS. Volume 8107 of LNCS. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2013) 1–17
- 4. 4 Challenges •A wider adoption of MDE technologies is still an CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain issue • Discovery and reuse of existing modeling artefacts is very limited
- 5. 5 Challenges •A wider adoption of MDE technologies is still an CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain issue • Discovery and reuse of existing modeling artefacts is very limited
- 6. 6 Challenges •A wider adoption of MDE technologies is still an CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain issue* • Discovery and reuse of existing modeling artefacts is very limited
- 7. 7 Challenges •A wider adoption of MDE technologies is still an CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain issue* • Discovery and reuse of existing modeling artefacts is very limited • Modelling and model management tools are distributed as software packages that need to be downloaded and installed
- 8. 8 Challenges •A wider adoption of MDE technologies is still an CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain issue* • Discovery and reuse of existing modeling artefacts is very limited • Modelling and model management tools are distributed as software packages that need to be downloaded and installed
- 9. 9 Some toolsproviding storage features… CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 10. 10 CloudMDE2014 –30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 11. 11 …we needmore An extensible platform that permits to • store and manage any kind of modeling artefacts CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain and tools • use model management tools as software as a service • Modeling as a Service (MaaS) initiative* *Hugo Bruneliere, Jordi Cabot and Frédéric Jouault, Combining Model-Driven Engineering and Cloud Computing. MDA4ServiceCloud'10 (ECMFA 2010)
- 12. 12 MDEForge •Community-based repository of modeling artifacts • It enables the adoption of model management tools as software as a service • It is modular and extensible • It will support advanced mechanisms to query the repository and find the required modeling artifacts CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain The platform is at its early stages http://www.mdeforge.org/
- 13. 13 MDEForge users • Developers of modeling artifacts: communities of users that might want to share their tools and enable their adoption and refinement by other users • Developers of MDEForge extensions: experienced users might contribute by proposing new extensions to be included in the platform • End-users: By means of the Web access and the REST API the platform enables end-users to search and use (meta)models, transformations, and editors available in the repository CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 14. 14 MDEForge architecture CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 15. 15 The MDEForgeRepository Repository metamodel fragment Simple repository content CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 16. 16 The MDEForgeCore CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 17. 17 Examples ofMDEForge extensions CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 18. 18 Automated chainingof model transformations CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain Problem
- 19. 19 Automated chainingof model transformations CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain Solution: chaining process
- 20. 20 Automated chainingof model transformations Solution: representation of the related artifacts CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 21. 21 Automated chainingof model transformations Solution: developed MDEForge extension CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 22. 22 Measuring metamodels • Understanding typical metamodel characteristics • Different metrics applied on a corpus of more than 450 metamodels have been correlated • to measure metamodeling aspects that modelers typically use • abstraction, inheritance, composition, … • to reveal what are the common characteristics that can increase the complexity of metamodels J. Di Rocco, D. Di Ruscio, L. Iovino and A. Pierantonio, Mining metrics for understanding metamodel characteristics, in: ICSE 2014 Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering (MiSE 2014), Hyderabad, India, 2014 CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 23. 23 Measuring metamodels CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 24. 24 Measuring metamodels CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 25. 25 Measuring metamodels CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 26. 26 Public andPrivate MDEForge installations CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain Public MDEForge Private MDEForge 1 ….. Private MDEForge n
- 27. 27 Conclusion andfuture works • Lack of reusability during model-driven engineering (e.g., creating a DSL from scratch) • Need to install and configure desktop-based applications to perform MDE development activities • MDEForge has been proposed as an extensible modeling platform supporting the creation of a community-based modeling repository • core services that can be extended and all of them are remotely available as software as a service • users are not overwhelmed with intricate and error-prone installation and configuration procedures CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain
- 28. 28 Conclusion andfuture works We want to: • investigate how to support advanced queries of CloudMDE2014 – 30 SEPT 2014, Valencia, Spain the repository • manage public and private installations of the MDEForge • investigate issues that are typical in Cloud computing, e.g., scalability of the platform, and workload management • deal with licensing issues
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