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Research: Sirius vs other MDD tools [message #1768216]

Fri, 14 July 2017 18:18

sonny selhorst

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Registered: May 2015

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Dear,

I am looking for a comparison between different MDD modeling frameworks to see what comes out as the best. My research has pointed me in the direction of Sirius, but I fail to find a paper which would allow me to objectively state this in my master thesis.

I was hoping that someone here could maybe point me in the right direction?

The papers I have found up till now:
compare Microsoft MDD tools with IBM tools (Eclipse/EMF/GMF) -> Eclipse wins
compare Graphiti with Sirius -> Sirius wins

Also, a side question, my professor told me that it wouldn't be a bad idea to test serious with GPL, as mistakes that are inherent to the language (as can be the case with DSL) would be avoided. Would you agree with this?

Thank you very much.

Kind regards,

Sonny

[Updated on: Fri, 14 July 2017 19:21]

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Re: Research: Sirius vs other MDD tools [message #1768223 is a reply to message #1768216]

Fri, 14 July 2017 19:47

Axel Guckelsberger

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi Sonny,

one key point is that modeling is not really popular. Thus Eclipse is the only ecosystem providing a huge variety of modeling frameworks. And within this ecosystem there is not much competing with each other, but working together. Many projects are connected together, for example the Sirius runtime is based on the GMF runtime which is based on GEF.

Of course there are a few other modeling systems, but many of these are monolithic one-project tools. One major benefit in Eclipse is that you can choose your prefered tool stack by combining let's say six of the more than 50 modeling sub projects.

IMO there is no best framework. But Eclipse is definitely offering the best ecosystem to build on.

HTH
Axel

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Re: Research: Sirius vs other MDD tools [message #1768224 is a reply to message #1768223]

Fri, 14 July 2017 19:58

sonny selhorst

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Registered: May 2015

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Thank you very much for your amazingly quick reply! Have a great weekend.

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Re: Research: Sirius vs other MDD tools [message #1768308 is a reply to message #1768224]

Mon, 17 July 2017 08:31

Cedric Brun

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Registered: July 2009

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Sirius's main goal is to allow the definition of domain specific tooling in a very quick way (here is a video building such a tool in 20 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4SVKlLs5E) while being suitable for complex domains and industrial deployments (Capella is such an example --
in Open Source - https://www.polarsys.org/capella/ but there are many more - https://www.eclipse.org/sirius/gallery.html)

Here are a couple more references which you might find useful:
"An iStar 2.0 Editor Based on the Eclipse Modelling Framework" which search for a suitable framework for this domain and ends up trying GMF, Graphiti and Sirius http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1829/iStar17_paper_18.pdf
"Evaluation of Modeling Tools Adaptation" dates from the time before Sirius was made open-source but already existed, it is refered to as "Obeo Designer" in this document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00706701v2/document
"Sirius: A Rapid Development of DSM Graphical Editor" gives a brief presentation of what makes Sirius different from other solutions https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263773514_Sirius_A_Rapid_Development_of_DSM_Graphical_Editor

http://cedric.brun.io news and articles on eclipse and eclipse modeling.

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