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RENEW: Modularized Architecture and New Features

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Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency (PETRI NETS 2023)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 13929))

Abstract

Renew is an extensible Petri Net IDE that supports the development and execution of high-level Petri Nets and other modeling techniques. Over the past seven years, Renew has undergone significant development and refinement.

To this end, Renew ’s code base has been reworked extensively, and its tool collection has been expanded. The reworking was necessary due to technical debt caused by environmental changes: especially Java’s transition from version 9 to 17. Adapting to the latest Java versions enables the modularization of Renew ’s architecture through the Java Platform Module System (JPMS) which was introduced with Java 9. Additionally, some new features have been implemented, which were used to test our new architectural design.

One of our main results gave Renew a cleaner code interface design and a more modern architecture. Examples of the extensions and improvements made are the new P/T-nets with synchronous channels (PTC) formalism and the Modular Model Checker (MoMoC). In addition to the aforementioned changes, the GUI has also been altered and now offers an all-in-one window.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Reference Net Workshop can be installed directly from the website http://renew.de. There is a selection of download options. The license terms can be found on the website mentioned above.

  2. 2.

    Java (Oracle): https://www.oracle.com/java; OpenJDK: https://openjdk.java.net/; Java Community Process: https://jcp.org; background information on Jigsaw the predecessor of the JPMS, starting in 2008 / 2014: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/.

  3. 3.

    MoMoC - A Modular Model Checker: https://paose.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/paose/wiki/MoMoC.

  4. 4.

    The source code of Mulan and thus its plugins have not been published yet.

  5. 5.

    Details about the plugins can be found in the associated READMEs.

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    Daniel Moldt, Jonte Johnsen, Relana Streckenbach, Laif-Oke Clasen, Michael Haustermann, Alexander Heinze, Marcel Hansson, Matthias Feldmann & Karl Ihlenfeldt

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Moldt, D. et al. (2023). RENEW: Modularized Architecture and New Features. In: Gomes, L., Lorenz, R. (eds) Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency. PETRI NETS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13929. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33620-1_12

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