Model Development Tools (MDT)

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.
  2. To provide exemplary tools for developing models based on those metamodels.

The next release of MDT is tentatively scheduled for the end of June 2009. For the previous release, see 1.1 New & Noteworthy.

OCL

OCL is an implementation of the Object Constraint Language (OCL) OMG standard for EMF-based models.

The OCL component provides the following capabilities to support OCL integration:

  • Defines APIs for parsing and evaluating OCL constraints and queries on EMF models.
  • Defines an Ecore implementation of the OCL abstract syntax model, including support for serialization of parsed OCL expressions.
  • Provides a Visitor API for analyzing/transforming the AST model of OCL expressions.
  • Provides an extensibility API for clients to customize the parsing and evaluation environments used by the parser.

The OCL parser is generated by the LALR Parser Generator, a SourceForge project, licensed under the EPL v1.0. Download it from the LPG home page. This site includes the generator executable required to regenerate the parser code.

Validation (Incubation) PhaseBPMN2

BPMN2 is an open source component of the Model Development Tools (MDT) subproject to provide a metamodel implementation based on the forthcoming Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0 OMG specification.

Validation (Incubation) PhaseEODM

EODM is an implementation of RDF(S)/OWL metamodels of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) using EMF with additional parsing, inference, model transformation and editing functions.

Validation (Incubation) PhaseIMM

IMM is an open source component of the Model Development Tools (MDT) subproject to provide metamodel/profile implementations based on the forthcoming Information Management Metamodel (IMM) OMG specification.

Validation (Incubation) PhaseSBVR

SBVR provides a metamodel implementation and sample tools based on the adopted Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) OMG specification.

UML2

UML2 is an EMF-based implementation of the UMLTM 2.x metamodel for the Eclipse platform.

Validation (Incubation) PhaseUML2 Tools

UML2 Tools is a set of GMF-based editors for viewing and editing UML models.

XSD

XSD is a library that provides an API for manipulating the components of an XML Schema as described by the W3C XML Schema specifications, as well as an API for manipulating the DOM-accessible representation of XML.

Incubation

Some components are currently in their Validation (Incubation) Phase.

News

New! Oct 1st - Check out what's new in the Galileo M2 milestone of the OCL subcompoject.

May 13th - A new Papyrus component has been proposed.

Apr 9th - EclipseCon 2008 "Creating Robust Scalable DSL's with UML" Tutorial tutorial now available.

Apr 9th - EclipseCon 2008 "New Features of UML2" Long Talk presentation now available.

Build Feeds Build News

New! Sep 24th - OCL stable build 1.3.0M2 is available for download.

New! Sep 21st - OCL integration build I200809211644 is available for download.

Sep 16th - OCL 1.2.2 has been released! Get it here.

Sep 10th - OCL integration build I200809101756 is available for download.

Modeling Corner

Want to contribute models, projects, files, ideas, utilities, or code to MDT or any other part of the Modeling Project? Now you can!

Have a look, post your comments, submit a link, or just read what others have written. Details here.

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