Project Plan For Model Development Tools (MDT), version Galileo

Introduction

This document lays out the feature and API set for the third release of the Eclipse Model Development Tools (MDT) Project. This project plan inherits from the Modeling Project Plan, which should be referenced when consulting this individual project plan.

Release Deliverables

The release deliverables have the same form as is found in most Eclipse projects, namely:

BPMN2

  • source code release, available as versions tagged "R0_7" in the project's CVS repository.
  • SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
  • runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
  • tests (downloadable)

IMM

  • source code release, available as versions tagged "R0_7" in the project's CVS repository.
  • SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
  • runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
  • tests (downloadable)

OCL

  • source code release, available as versions tagged "R1_3" in the project's CVS repository.
  • SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
  • runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
  • tests (downloadable)

SBVR

  • source code release, available as versions tagged "R0_7" in the project's CVS repository.
  • SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
  • runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
  • tests (downloadable)

UML2

  • source code release, available as versions tagged "R3_0" in the project's CVS repository.
  • SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
  • runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
  • tests (downloadable)

UML2 Tools

  • source code release, available as versions tagged "R0_9" in the project's CVS repository.
  • SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
  • runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
  • Tools tests (downloadable)

XSD

  • source code release, available as versions tagged "R2_5" in the project's CVS repository.
  • SDK (includes runtime, sources, examples, and documentation) (downloadable and update site).
  • runtime binary distribution (downloadable and update site).
  • tests (downloadable)

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Release Milestones

Release milestone occurring at roughly 6 week intervals and follow the Platform milestone releases by approximately 3 weeks; that is, until the final 3.5 release of the Platform, upon which MDT and other projects will release simultaneously. Components of MDT that are dependencies of numerous other projects will deliver their milestones within one week of the Eclipse Platform. It is anticipated that MDT will synchronize its milestones with the Galileo milestone schedule.
M210/03/2008
M311/14/2008
M401/05/2009
M502/10/2009
M603/19/2009
API Freeze
M705/06/2009
Feature Freeze
RC105/20/2009
RC205/27/2009
RC306/03/2009
RC406/10/2009
RC506/17/2009
Galileo06/26/2009
MDT will produce maintenance releases to align with the Ganymede SR releases, that includes the Eclipse Platform 3.4.1 and 3.4.2 releases. MDT may produce interim maintenance releases in addition to these in order to satisfy client requests.

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Target Environments

In order to remain current, each Eclipse release targets reasonably current versions of the underlying operating environments. The Eclipse Model Development Tools (MDT) project depends upon on the Platform and other projects, which are mostly "pure" JavaTM. The 3.5 release of the Eclipse Platform Project is written and compiled against version 1.4 of the Java Platform APIs, and targeted to run on version 1.4 of the Java Runtime Environment, Standard Edition. MDT will target the same Java version as EMF, which currently requires Java 5. Eclipse Platform SDK 3.5 will be tested and validated on a number of reference platforms. MDT will be tested and validated against a subset of those listed for the platform.

Internationalization

The Eclipse Platform is designed as the basis for internationalized products. The user interface elements provided by the Eclipse SDK components, including dialogs and error messages, are externalized. The English strings are provided as the default resource bundles. As a result, the MDT project will provide English strings in its default bundles and be localized to a subset of those locales offered by the Platform. This plan will be updated to indicate which locales will be provided and the time frame for availability.

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Compatibility with Previous Releases

Compatibility of Galileo Release: The MDT project will be developed in parallel, and released simultaneously, with the following projects. As stated above, each milestone release of the MDT project will be compatible with the corresponding milestones for each of these projects, and delivered the appropriate offset.
  • Eclipse Platform SDK version 3.5
  • Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) version 2.5
  • Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) version 2.2
Therefore, the MDT initial release will be compatible with these versions and will publish binary and source compatibilities with migration guides on subsequent releases.

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Themes and Priorities

A list of project requirements and agreed upon implementation time frames is found in this document. For the milestones listed in this document, a set of overall themes is used to indicate what major set of functionalities is to be concentrated on for each. These themes are presented below, while the requirements document and associated Bugzilla entries are left to those wanting more detailed information on each.

Release Currency

OCL
  • Committed
    • No items.
  • Proposed
    • Maintain Currency with EMF, UML2 Templates [207365] (target milestone: 1.3.0)
  • Deferred
    • OCL Specification Currency [156363] (target milestone: 2.0.0)

UML2
  • Committed
    • No items.
  • Proposed
    • Support for conversion of owned ends [157982] (target milestone: 3.0.0)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Extensibility

OCL
  • Committed
    • OCL's type checking system needs to be extensible. [233673] (target milestone: M3)
    • InvOrDefCS irregularities [243976] (target milestone: M3)
    • Bug in AbstractEnvironment when looking up implicit sources [234354] (target milestone: M2)
    • Provide a general support for parameterized type resolution bycustom OCL environments [179990] (target milestone: M4)
    • Use resolved operation name to determine OperationCallExp.opcode [213886] (target milestone: M2)
    • Adopt Eclipse API Tooling [248869] (target milestone: M3)
  • Proposed
    • Adding a parsing option to exclude non-standard operations from OCL Standard Library [228839] (target milestone: 1.3.0)
    • There is currently no way to un-define an operation [236604] (target milestone: 1.3.0)
    • OperationCallExp arguments_conform constraint looks up operation [236247] (target milestone: 1.3.0)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Appealing to a Broader Community

OCL
  • Committed
    • Improve BigDecimal support [245897] (target milestone: M2)
    • Need eCONTENT_TYPE [231435] (target milestone: M2)
  • Proposed
    • Adding the edit and editor plugin to have OCL models editable in the EMF's Sample Ecore Editor [196973] (target milestone: 1.3.0)
    • Reorganize features to better reflect dependencies [192506] (target milestone: 1.3.0)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Compliance

BPMN2
  • Committed
    • BPMN 2.0 Metamodel [247456] (target milestone: M6)
  • Proposed
    • No items.
  • Deferred
    • No items.

IMM
  • Committed
    • XML Schema Profile [247460] (target milestone: M6)
    • E/R Metamodel [230441] (target milestone: M6)
    • Core Metamodel [230443] (target milestone: M6)
    • E/R Profile [247458] (target milestone: M6)
    • Relational Profile [247459] (target milestone: M6)
    • XMI for Relational Metamodel [248025] (target milestone: M6)
    • XMI for XML Schema Metamodel [248024] (target milestone: M6)
  • Proposed
    • LDAP Metamodel [247468] (target milestone: 0.7.0)
    • LDAP Profile [247473] (target milestone: 0.7.0)
    • Traceability Metamodel [247479] (target milestone: 0.7.0)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

SBVR
  • Committed
    • Load and Save XMI compliant with SBVR 1.0 [226008] (target milestone: M6)
    • SBVR exchange document metamodel [226006] (target milestone: M4)
    • SBVR metamodel for tool developers [226010] (target milestone: M4)
  • Proposed
    • SBVR test cases [226011] (target milestone: 0.7.0)
    • Enhance model validation [226012] (target milestone: 0.7.0)
    • SBVR 1.1 compliance [226013] (target milestone: 0.7.0)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

UML2
  • Committed
    • UML 2.2 Compliance [232332] (target milestone: M3)
    • Property should not specialize TemplateableElement [208353] (target milestone: M3)
  • Proposed
    • UML2 Implementation Bug - Redefinable Template Signature does not conform to OMG Spec [238537] (target milestone: 3.0.0)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Community Support

UML2
  • Committed
    • Genmodel copyright fields setting ignored for operations classes [242726] (target milestone: M4)
  • Proposed
    • Stereotypes and their values are not copied in UML Editor [204658] (target milestone: 3.0.0)
    • UML2 runtime feature has many dependencies and includes too many unnecessary plugins for clients wanting only to use UML API to create/manipulate UML models [227616] (target milestone: 3.0.0)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

XSD
  • Committed
    • No items.
  • Proposed
    • No items.
  • Deferred
    • XSD2Ecore Enhancements [152373] (target milestone: ---)
    • Investigate support for XML Schema 1.1 [204125] (target milestone: ---)

Usability

UML2 Tools
  • Committed
    • Structure diagrams synchronization [199731] (target milestone: M4)
    • Diagram relations [199735] (target milestone: M4)
    • Extended profiling support [199739] (target milestone: M2)
    • Diagram specific property sheets [199740] (target milestone: M3)
  • Proposed
    • No items.
  • Deferred
    • No items.

Sample Tools

SBVR
  • Committed
    • Sample SBVR editor and menus [226017] (target milestone: M4)
  • Proposed
    • Project Explorer navigator view [226018] (target milestone: 0.7.0)
    • Import business vocabulary from UML [226019] (target milestone: 0.7.0)
    • Transform SBVR to Platform-Independent Models (PIM) [226021] (target milestone: 0.7.0)
  • Deferred
    • No items.

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Appendix Legal Notices

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