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 2008. For the previous release, see New & Noteworthy.

UML2

UML2 is an EMF-based implementation of the Unified Modeling Language (UMLTM) 2.x OMG metamodel for the Eclipse platform.

The objectives of the UML2 component are to provide

  • a useable implementation of the UML metamodel to support the development of modeling tools
  • a common XMI schema to facilitate interchange of semantic models
  • test cases as a means of validating the specification
  • validation rules as a means of defining and enforcing levels of compliance

For more details on UML2, see the Wiki.

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.

OCL

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

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.

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

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.

Mar 19th - EclipseCon 2008 Short Talk presentation now available.

Mar 18th - EclipseCon 2008 Long Talk presentation now available.

Build Feeds Build News

New! May 5th - UML2 stable build 2.2.0M7 is available for download.

New! Apr 29th - UML2 integration build I200804291920 is available for download.

New! Apr 24th - UML2 integration build I200804241720 is available for download.

New! Apr 20th - UML2 integration build I200804200420 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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