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From Product Manufacturer to

Eclipse MDSD Projects

The Transformation of Gentleware AG

Dr. Marko Boger, CEO

Dr. Jan Köhnlein, Senior Architect

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Gentleware AG

� Founded in 2000

� Founder and CEO:

Dr. Marko Boger

� Development and Distribution of UML

modeling tools

� Poseidon for UML

� Apollo for Eclipse

� More than 2,000,000 downloads

� MDSD Consulting and Projects

� DSL Design

� Model Editor in Eclipse

� Generator in openArchitectureWare

Dr. Marko Boger

Dr. Jan Köhnlein

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Assembler

ParadigmsParadigmsParadigmsParadigms overoveroverover TimeTimeTimeTime

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Time

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Frameworks (OOP)

Object Oriented

Procedural

Model Driven

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Assembler

ParadigmsParadigmsParadigmsParadigms overoveroverover TimeTimeTimeTime

1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Time

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Frameworks (OOP)

Object Oriented

Procedural

Model Driven

UML 1 UML 2

1997 2005

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Observations on MDSD

� The Paradigm of Model Driven Software Design is

becoming a reality

� It is NOT based on UML

� Instead it is based on DSLs

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UML 1 Metamodel for States

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StateManiche

Behavior

(from org::omg::uml2::commonbehaviors2)

Region

stateMachine

{subsets namespace}

+0..1

region

{subsets ownedMember}

+1..*

State

-/isComposite:Boolean

-/isOrthogonal:Boolean

-/isSimple:Boolean

-/isSubmachineState:Boolean

state

{subsets namespace}

+0..1

region

{subsets ownedMember}

+*

Transition

-kind:TransitionKind

container

{subsets owner}

+

1

transition

{subsets ownedElement}

+

*

Vertex

container

{redefines owner}

+

0..1subvertex

{subsets ownedElement}

+*

FinalState Constraint

(from org::omg::uml2::core2)

owningState+ 0..1

stateInvariant+

0..1

Trigger

(from org::omg::uml2::compositestructures2)* deferrableTrigger+

*

Activity

(from org::omg::uml2::commonbehaviors2)

-body:String[0..1]

-language:String[0..1]

-isSingleExecution:Boolean=false

-isReadOnly:Boolean=false

0..1

effect

{subsets ownedElement}

+

0..1

0..1entry

{subsets ownedElement}

+

0..1

0..1exit

{subsets ownedElement}

+

0..1

0..1doActivity

{subsets ownedElement}

+

0..1

Pseudostate

-kind:PseudostateKind

ConnectionPointReference

*

exit+ 0..1

*

entry+ 0..1

0..1connection

{subsets ownedElement}

+

*

submachine+

0..1

submachineState+

*

0..1

connectionPoint

{subsets ownedMember}

+

*

*

trigger+

*

0..1

guard+

0..1

BehavioredClassifier

(from org::omg::uml2::commonbehaviors2)

{subsets redefinitionContext}+

0..1

ownedSateMachine

{redefines ownedBehavior

+

*

context+

0..1ownedBehavior+

*

<< enumeration >>

TransitionKind

-internal:

-local:

-external:

<< enumeration >>

PseudostateKind

-initial:

-deepHistory:

-shallowHistory:int

-join:

-fork :

-junction:

-choice:

-entryPoint:

-exitPoint:

-terminate:

UML 2 Metamodel for States

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UML 1 vs UML 2 for States

container+

0..1

subvertex+

*

0..1

top+1

State

-/isComposite:Boolean

-/isOrthogonal:Boolean

-/isSimple:Boolean

-/isSubmachineSate:Boolean

FinalStateCompositeState SimpleState

SubmachineState

Region

state+

0..1

region+ *

Trigger

* defferableTrigger+

*

Event

* deferrableEvent+

*

Event was replaced by

Trigger, also changed:

- Mutliplicity,

- navigation

- compositon

Transition

-kind:TransitionKind

container+

1

transition+ *

*

trigger+*

1

trigger+

0..1

<< enumeration>>

TransitionKind

-internal:int

-local:int

-external:int

<< enumeration>>

PseudostateKind

-initial:int

-deepHistory:int

-shallowHistory:int

-join:int

-fork:int

-junction:int

-choice:int

-entryPoint:int

-exitPoint:int

-terminate:int

Vertex

old type: StateVertex

Pseudostate

-kind:PseudostateKind

ConnectionPointReference

0..1

exit+ *

0..1

entry+ *

0..1connection+*

SubStateSynchState

incoming+ *target+1

outgoing+ *source+1

no subinterfaces

anymore

StateMachine

container+

0..1

subvertex+*

stateMachine+0..1

region+1..*

submachineState+ *

submachine+ 0..1

1

submachine+ 1

moved association

0..1

connectionPoint+

*

Constraint

owningState+0..1

stateInvariant+

0..1

0..1

guard+

0..1

Guard

1

guard+

0..1

Guard was replaced by

Constraint, also changed

multiplicity

0..1

transitions+1

moved assocition to

Region

Activity

0..1

effect+0..1

0..1 doActivity+

0..1

0..1 exit+

0..1

0..1 entry+

0..1

old type:

Action

internalTransition+ *

0..1

replaced internalTransition

eventually

interchange

multiplicities??

The spec. definies this

a composition. But in the

xmi it is a association.

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Revenue 2007

36%

64%

Products

Consulting & Projects

The Structural Change of Gentleware

Revenue 2006

92%

8%

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Gentleware joined the b+m Group

� IT Service Provider

� Focus on model driven software projects

� Initiator of the openArchitectureWare Generator

Framework

� Active in a variety of domains

� Founded in 1994

� Turnover in 2006: 20,8 Mio. €

� Team: 227 Employees

� www.bmiag.de

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The joint b+m Gentleware Service

� b+m Engineering

TestTestIntegrationIntegrationSpezifikationSpezifikationEnterpriseArchitektur

EnterpriseArchitektur IT LösungIT Lösung ProduktionProduktionStrategieStrategie

QualitätQualität

MethodikMethodik

Projektmanagement / ReleasemanagementProjektmanagement / Releasemanagement

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Our Development Process

ModelModelModelModel

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GMF Development Process

Custo

miz

ation

Testin

g

Custom plug-in

(Java code)

Create

custom plug-in

OK?

Test

Mod

elin

gG

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era

tion

*.gmfmap

Create

mapping model

Create

tooling model

Create

graphical model

Create

domain model

*.gmftool

*.gmfgraph

*.ecore

*.gmfgen Generate

generation model

GMF plug-in

(Java code)

Create GMF

editor plug-in

ad: GMF-Entwicklungsprozess

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Apollo for Eclipse

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Apollo for Eclipse

� Features:

� Fully synchronized roundtrip engineering for Java <>> UML2

� Scalability

� Code discovery

� Challenges:

� Build one of the first commercial products based on GMF

� Build Gentleware’s first product based on Eclipse

� Switch to Eclipse IDE for development

� IDE is part of the product

� Build/test infrastructure

� Learn how to use a lot of new frameworks

� Keep compatibility with other Eclipse plug>ins

� UML2 / GMF mismatches

� Improve scalability of EMF and GMF

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Athene for OWL

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Flowers

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Flowers

� Showcase for modeling abstractions and tooling for

screen based J2EE applications

� Entity, Service, Screenflow

� Integration into WTP

� Sample code generator for Hibernate, Spring, WebFlow

� Enabling rapid prototyping for J2EE

� Model and see results immediately

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Hermes

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Hermes

� Prototype for modeling SOA applications

� BPM, Services, Screenflows

� Bridges connecting model elements from different

(meta)model partitions

� UI as popup buttons and properties

� Model validation

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Zeus

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Zeus

� J2EE application modeling environment

� Challenges

� Integration into existing MDSD tool chain

� Model browser

� Non>canonical diagrams

� Diagram repair

� Automatically adding connections

� Generated bridge UI

� Model validation

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