1	What’s New in UML2? Short Talk Kenn Hussey IBM Rational Software
2	Contents Overview Goals Challenges Status Milestones 2.0 Development Plan How Can You Help?
3	Overview An Eclipse Modeling Development Tools subcomponent at http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=uml2#uml2 An EMF-based implementation of the UML™ 2.1 metamodel for the Eclipse platform Project lead is Kenn Hussey (khussey@ca.ibm.com) Users include IBM, Omondo, Metamatrix, … Estimated 85,000 downloads in January 2006
4	Goals Provide a useable implementation of the UML metamodel to support the development of modeling tools Provide a common XMI schema to facilitate interchange of semantic models Provide test cases as a means of validating the specification and implementation Provide validation rules as a means of defining and enforcing levels of compliance
5	Challenges Since the specification has been at various stages of finalization, the API has been a moving target Aspects of the standard metamodel (redefinition, subsets/supersets, unions) made the mapping to Java™ and XMI non-trivial There were a number of errors in the specification which, until fixed, made the API and XMI schema difficult to use Compliance points for UML are a subject of debate within the modeling community
6	Status – Metamodel EMF-generated API based on a merged version of the metamodel in which package merges and most redefinitions have been factored out Includes mechanisms to support derived union, redefines, and subsets constraints Generated using customized code generator and JET templates
7	Status – Interchange Default XMI schema generated using EMF Defines one namespace (http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/2.0.0/UML) for all elements, thus supporting interchange Elements identified using Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) Will support import/export from/to OMG XMI for UML once the 2.1 specification is finalized
8	Status – Specification Errors discovered while developing the API and XMI schema were fixed and submitted as issues to the UML 2.1 Superstructure and Infrastructure Revision Task Force (RTF) UML 2.1 Superstructure and Infrastructure RTF has delivered final draft and report to OMG Release date for UML 2.1 Specification is TBD (soon!) UML 2.2 Superstructure and Infrastructure RTF is being chartered – open issues available at http://www.omg.org/issues/uml2-rtf.open.html
9	Status – Compliance Validation rules evaluated using EMF validator mechanism Validators implemented based on sets of OCL constraints Correspond to compliance levels
10	Milestones 2004 June – 1.0 September – 1.0.1 2005 March – 1.0.2 June – 1.0.3 July – 1.1.0 September – 1.1.1 2006 June – 2.0
11	2.0 Development Plan Theme: Release Currency Eclipse 3.2 / EMF 2.2 Compatibility Theme: Completeness UML 2.1 Conformance UML 2.1 Interchange UML2 2.0 Migration Validation Rules Unit Tests OCL Support
12	2.0 Development Plan Theme: Built to Last Reduced Memory Footprint Theme: Simple to Use Improved Convenience Methods Improved Documentation Enhanced Icons Theme: Broadening the Community Tools
13	How Can You Help? Develop tools based on UML2 Report bugs Participate in newsgroup discussions Write articles Become a UML2 contributor!
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