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Antonio VillegasGrup de Recerca en Modelització Conceptual de Sistemes d’Informació

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Rest of Us!

Overview

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ECLIPSE UNIVERSE

ECLIPSE MODELING PROJECT

EMF AND UML2 TOOLS

TUTORIAL

DOCUMENTATION

TO CONSIDER

PERSONAL CONCLUSION

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Eclipse Universe

Grup de Recerca en Modelització Conceptual

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http://www.eclipse.org

Eclipse Universe


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Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle.

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Eclipse Universe


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ECLIPSE PLUGIN CENTRAL

PLANET ECLIPSE ECLIPSE WIKI

TRAINING MAILING LISTS AND

NEWSGROUPS

HELP FOR/FROM USERS AND PROGRAMMERS

PORTALS

ECLIPSE LIVE BUGZILLA EVENTS AND CONFERENCES

DOCUMENTATION

LANGUAGE IDES

Eclipse Universe


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LANGUAGE IDES

Eclipse Universe


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ECLIPSE PLUGIN CENTRAL


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Eclipse Modeling Project


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Model Development Tools MDT

UML2 UML2 Tools OCL


UML2 UML2 Tools OCL



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UML2 UML2 Tools OCL



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New Plug-ins



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.genmodel file

Ecore modelRose modelUML model

Annotated Java XML schema

Model code Edit code Editor code Test code

OR

New Plug-in



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Diagram Editor Gen Model .gmfgen

Domain model.ecore

Domain Gen Model .genmodel

Graphical Def Model.gmfgraph

Mapping Model .gmfmap

Diagram code

Tooling Def Model.gmftool


15EMF and UML2 Tools Tutorial


16Eclipse Installation

EMF and UML2 Tools Tutorial

Eclipse Modeling Tools

Eclipse Classic


17Plug-in Installation


Manual method

1. Go to download page2. Download the new component3. Go to the Eclipse Installation

HOME directory4. Place the downloaded item into

the plugins directory

BUILDDEPENDENCIES


18Plug-in Installation


Automatic method

You’ll see how to do that in a few minutes

with a semi-real example

BUILDDEPENDENCIES

ECLIPSE INSTALL MANAGER


19The tutorial


Eclipse as a CASE tool

Development cycle of EMF

EMF

UML2

UML2 Tools

UML2 Diagramming

EMF

Ecore Tools

GMF

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20The tutorial


References that has been used

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/uml2/docs/articles/Getting_Started_with_UML2/article.htmlGetting Started with UML2

Kenn Hussey, IBM

http://www.vogella.de/articles/UML/article.html

Creating UML 2 diagrams with Eclipse UML2 Tools - Tutorial

Lars Vogel, SAP

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Using%20EMF/using-emf.htmlUsing EMF

Catherine Griffin, IBM


21Documentation to consider


22Eclipse NewsPortal

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal

It is not eye-candy but useful

Documentation to consider


23Eclipsepedia

http://wiki.eclipse.org

Go to the modeling section



24Eclipse Modeling (sub)Projects

Documentation Area



25Eclipse Resources

http://www.eclipse.org/resources



26Eclipse Live

http://live.eclipse.org



27Eclipse Day Valencia

http://www.slideshare.net/event/eclipse-day-valencia-2008



28Eclipse Book Series



29Personal Conclusions


30Eclipse VS EinaGMC

Instantiate conceptual schemas as a set of Java Objects

Save/Load conceptual schemas to/from XMI

GUI for edition of conceptual schemas

Support and maintenance

Impact

And what about OCL?

Support UML2

Complexity

Personal Conclusions


31My opinion about...


• Eclipse provides a huge framework to develop and research• It contains tools and plugins for almost all the known technologies• The Modeling Project is one of the most active projects

• It is not a simple tool• Getting on with Eclipse implies to make a big effort• The documentation is a mess




• EinaGMC provides a quick development environment• It is an easy tool to both inexperienced and expert developers• It has a quite well documentation

• It is not a full development environment (GUI, more functionalities)• It needs be tested in deep (fix bugs)• It needs more support of the GMC




THE FUTURE

GMC

• To gain collaborations with companies we all need to make an effort in the same direction

• First of all: decide what we want to do• Not all the work consists on programming a tool• EinaGMC (now) is not ready to be sold as a good tool

• IF we adopt Eclipse THEN– Make groups of study according to the different technologies (EMF, GMF, ...)– Active participation of all of us– REPEAT: Not all the work consists on programming

Thank you

Antonio VillegasGrup de Recerca en Modelització Conceptual de Sistemes d’Informació

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