1	What’s New in MDT? Short Talk Kenn Hussey Embarcadero Technologies
2	Contents Overview Participants Components Themes Plan Items How Can You Help?
3	Overview Model Development Tools (MDT) is an Eclipse Modeling sub-project at http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/ Inspired by the Eclipse community’s need for more end user "tooling" from the Modeling project Purpose of MDT is to provide extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for the metamodels within the scope of the Modeling project Next release scheduled for June 2008 (Ganymede)
4	Participants Project lead is Kenn Hussey (Embarcadero Technologies) Committers currently from IBM, Borland, Embarcadero Technologies, Adaptive, XML Modeling, and Soyatec Potential contributions from Atos Origin, LS Internet-Technologie, Zeligsoft, Papyrus, Topcased, and others Collaborations with DTP and STP projects
5	Components Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN2) EMF Ontology Definition Metamodel (EODM) Information Management Metamodel (IMM) Object Constraint Language (OCL) OCL Tools Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) Unified Modeling Language™ 2.x (UML2) UML2 Tools XML™ Schema Infoset Model (XSD)
6	Components – BPMN2 BPMN2 is a new component aimed at providing a metamodel implementation based on the forthcoming Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN™ 2.0) OMG™ specification BPMN2 will provide an open source "reference" implementation of the BPMN 2.0 specification an EMF-based foundation on which business process modeling tools can be built a basis for integrating and interchanging artifacts between business process modeling tools a forum for engaging the community in validation of the BPMN 2.0 specification an opportunity for increased collaboration between Eclipse and the OMG
7	Components – EODM EODM is an implementation of the RDF™(S)/OWL metamodels of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) OMG specification using EMF with additional parsing, inference, model transformation, and editing functions EODM provides an EMF-based RDF/OWL model an RDF/OWL parser an RDF/OWL reasoner an RDF/OWL transformer a workbench which provides basic Eclipse editors for RDF/OWL
8	Components – IMM IMM is a new component aimed at providing metamodel/profile implementations based on the forthcoming Information Management Metamodel (IMM) OMG specification IMM will provide an open source "reference" implementation of the IMM specification an EMF-based foundation on which information management modeling tools can be built a basis for integrating and interchanging artifacts between information management modeling tools a forum for engaging the community in validation of the IMM specification an opportunity for increased collaboration between Eclipse and the OMG
9	Components – OCL OCL is an implementation of the Object Constraint Language (OCL) OMG specification for EMF-based models OCL provides APIs for parsing and evaluating OCL constraints and queries an Ecore implementation of the OCL abstract syntax model, including support for serialization of parsed OCL expressions a visitor API for analyzing/transforming the AST model of OCL expressions an extensibility API for clients to customize the parsing and evaluation environments used by the parser
10	Components – OCL Tools OCL Tools is a new component to aimed at providing first-class support for modelers working with specifications containing expressions written in OCL OCL Tools will provide an OCL to Java compiler, which will initially take as input an Ecore model and a textual file containing OCL constraints but will eventually handle UML2 models as well an OCL text editor, supporting usability features such as auto completion, hyperlink navigation, and structured views (for the outline of a document and for the Abstract Syntax Tree of an OCL constraint), among others
11	Components – SBVR SBVR is a new component aimed at providing a metamodel implementation and sample tools based on the adopted Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) OMG specification SBVR will provide an open source "reference" implementation of the SBVR specification an EMF-based foundation on which business vocabulary and business rules modeling tools can be built a basis for integrating and interchanging artifacts between business vocabulary and business rules tools a forum for engaging the community in validation of the SBVR specification
12	Components – UML2 UML2 is an EMF-based implementation of the Unified Modeling Language 2.x OMG specification for the Eclipse platform UML2 provides a useable implementation of the 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
13	Components – UML2 Tools UML2 Tools is a set of GMF-based editors for viewing and editing UML® models UML2 Tools provides editors for class diagrams profile diagrams component diagrams state machine diagrams activity diagrams
14	Components – XSD XSD is a reference library that provides an API for use with any code that examines, creates, or modifies documents based on the XML Schema W3C® standard XSD provides APIs for manipulating components of an XML Schema manipulating the DOM™-accessible representation of XML Schema as a series of XML documents keeping these representations in agreement as schemas are modified
15	Themes – MDT 1.1 End-to-End MDSD Improved Usability Upgrade Path Ease of Use Technology Trends Internationalization & Localization
16	Plan Items – OCL 1.2 End-to-End MDSD Extending the OCL grammar for QVT Navigation of unnamed association ends Improved Usability Customizing error handling
17	Plan Items – UML2 2.2 End-to-End MDSD Profile Support for Ecore Annotations Support for (de)serialization to/from CMOF Upgrade Path Eclipse 3.4 / EMF 2.4 Compatibility Ease of Use Enhanced Documentation
18	Plan Items – UML2 2.2 Technology Trends UML 2.1.2 Compliance Internationalization & Localization BiDi Support
19	Plan Items – UML2 Tools 0.8 End-to-End MDSD Composite Structure Diagrams Deployment Diagrams Use Case Diagrams Object Diagrams Basic OCL Integration
20	Plan Items – UML2 Tools 0.8 Improved Usability Structure Diagram Synchronization Diagram Relations Extended Profile Support Diagram-Specific Property Sheets
21	Plan Items – XSD 2.4 Ease of Use Improved Diagnostics Technology Trends XML Schema 1.1
22	How Can You Help? Develop and use tools based on MDT components Report bugs Participate in newsgroup discussions Write articles Become an MDT contributor!
23	Legal Notices BPMN, OMG, and Unified Modeling Language are trademarks of the Object Management Group UML and XMI are registered trademarks of the Object Management Group DOM, RDF, and XML are trademarks of the World Wide Web Consortium; marks of W3C are registered and held by its host institutions MIT, ERCIM, and Keio Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others