| [technology-pmc] FW: Reasons why we should NOT archive the ECESIS project |
FYI, Wayne -- Wayne Beaton The Eclipse Foundation wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.eclipse.org http://wbeaton.blogspot.com/ http://www.planeteclipse.org/planet/ > -----Original Message----- > From: jbezivin@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jbezivin@xxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Jean Bezivin > Sent: December 6, 2006 8:31 AM > To: Wayne Beaton > Cc: DWIGHT DEUGO; mmindel@xxxxxxxxxx; gabbys@xxxxxxxxxx; > Eclipse Technology Open Courseware Project mailing list; > Bjorn Freeman-Benson; Freddy ALLILAIRE; Frederic Jouault > Subject: Reasons why we should NOT archive the ECESIS project > > Wayne, > > I intend to be present later at the teleconference. > I would like to strongly argue against the ECESIS archival. > For me this project is most useful > and it will be a pity to archive it now. > > It only needs some minimal revamping. > > I provide below a list orf arguments why we should NOT > archive ECESIS and why this would cause a lot of problems to > those that just submitted material recently under the EPL > licence to find another organization ready to host this material. > > I also enclose a screenshot (ECESISProposal.PNG) showing how > minimal the revamping could be to make ECESIS much more practical. > > Reasons why we should NOT archive the ECESIS project > > 1. It is not true that there has been no activity in the past months. > Many contributors have produced courseware on model > engineering most useful to the new modeling project that has > just opened. > The total size of the contributed material in zipped format > is 6741Ko, which is not nothing. > This comes from a number of institutions and companies. > > I enclose a general index to see the structure of the > material provided: index.html > > For your own inspection, I enclose also one of the > contribution, a description of XMI from SINTEF Norway. Many > other contributions have similar level of quality. You may > look at these. > The problem is just to find where they are in ECESIS :|) (see below) > > 2.The material contributed to ECESIS in the last months is > not very visible because it has been packaged only in a > unique zipped file and contributed by one committer only for > practical reasons. > > 3. The way to access this material is very complex through > the current ECESIS interface which explains why few people > have managed to get access to it and that it has caused no > big activity, reactions and discussions. > > 4. What is to blame is not the existrence of ECESIS, it is > mainly its current organization. ECESIS needs revamping, not > archiving. > > 5. With a minimal effort, it should be possible to improve > the architecture of ECESIS so that the elements may be > individually viewed and accessed (see attached sreeenshot) > > 6. ECESIS has been most useful in the past and may (will) be > very useful in the future. For example before external users > may fully understand the power of EMF, Ecore, Emfatic, M2M, > etc. they may need to understand UML, UML Profiles, MOF, XMI, > QVT, JMI, etc. (Sorry if I am giving example in the modelling > space because this is now my playground, but similar examples > could be found in the XML space, etc.) > > 7. We need a central place from where to access the basic > teaching material prerequisite to the use of the various > technologies that Eclipse is developing. > This could be only a portail pointing to external resources, > but it is nice if these resources can have the status of > Eclipse artefacts, i.e. > be contributed under EPL. > If ECESIS is archived, it will be necessary to find another > place to store the material, possibly under a different > licencing scheme. > > 8. ECESIS could be a place to organize the Web pointers on > the resources that are already made available under EPL on > various occasions like EclipseCon 2006, EclipseCon 2007, ESE, etc. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 12/5/06, Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As a reminder, an archive review for Ecesis is scheduled > for tomorrow. > > > > The slide deck and time information is available here: > > http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ > > > > Thanks, > > > > Wayne > > -- > > Wayne Beaton > > The Eclipse Foundation > > wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.eclipse.org > > http://wbeaton.blogspot.com/ > > http://www.planeteclipse.org/planet/ > > > > > > > -- > See you in June 2007 in Zurich for the TOOLS conference: > http://tools.ethz.ch/ __________________________________ > Jean Bézivin - ATLAS Group (INRIA & LINA) - University of > Nantes - 2, rue de la Houssinière > 44322 Nantes cedex 3 - France > tel. +33 2 51 12 58 13 - fax. +33 2 51 12 58 12 - cell.+33 6 > 14 32 22 36 > - e.mail: Jean.Bezivin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/lina/atl/ - Skype: jbezivin > --------------------------------------- >
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The content provided here is organized in 16 chapters. It is a subject of the EPL version 1.0. Below is a short description of the content of each chapter. Every chapter contains a number of lectures that cover the basic topics related to the chapter.
This chapter presents two languages required for understanding the content in the other chapters: the part of UML for creating class diagrams and Object Constraints Language (OCL). The presentation of the full UML 2.0 is given in Chapter 5.
This chapter introduces the basic concepts in MDD and how they evolved in the last decades.
This chapter outlines the motivation for MDD and the basic problems tackled in MDD.
This chapter presents the concepts of model, metamodel, and metametamodel and how they are employed in the OMG modelling stack.
This chapter presents the important standards in MDD. It covers OMG standards such as MOF, UML 2.0, XMI, etc. and also other standards developed outside OMG such as JMI.
This chapter presents some models of processes, e.g. the SPEM (Software Process Engineering Metamodel Specification).
This chapter covers initiatives like Action Semantics for UML and Executable UML.
This chapter gives examples of various platforms and their models (e.g. Corba Component Model - CCM).
This chapter presents a number of business models such as EDOC.
This chapter is devoted on model transformations. It gives information about various transformation languages and related standards such as QVT.
This chapter presents non-trivial examples of application of MDD techniques and real life cases where MDD has been successfuly applied.
This chapter gives an overview of the currently available tools in MDD (both commercial and open source).
Next two chapters presents two frameworks that exemplify MDD concepts: Eclipse Modeling Framework by IBM and Software Factories by Microsoft.
This chapter positions MDD in a broader context and relates it to other technologies such as XML, Web Services, Semantic Web, etc.
This chapter presents the theoretical underpinnings of concepts like model, modelling, metamodelling, etc.
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