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Combining Versioning and Metamodel Evolution in the ChronoSphere Model Repository

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Abstract

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) has gained a lot of popularity in recent years and is being applied in a wide variety of domains. As teams, models and applications grow in size, the need for faster and more scalable technology emerges, in particular in the crucial area of model repositories. These software components are responsible for persisting, querying and versioning the model content and act as central hubs for interaction with the model. However, existing repository solutions do not consider metamodel evolution, which is important in long-running projects. In this paper, we present ChronoSphere, a novel model repository, targeted specifically towards developers working with MDE technology in industry, with a focus on models-at-runtime scenarios. By utilizing the latest innovations in graph databases and version control, ChronoSphere provides transparent and efficient versioning as well as metamodel evolution capabilities. This paper focuses on the core concepts of ChronoSphere, in particular data management, versioning and metamodel evolution. Our open-source implementation serves as proof of concept.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDO.

  2. 2.

    https://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/.

  3. 3.

    This work was partially funded by the research project “txtureSA” (FWF-Project P 29022).

  4. 4.

    http://tinyurl.com/chronosphere-github.

  5. 5.

    http://tinyurl.com/chronograph-github.

  6. 6.

    http://tinkerpop.apache.org/.

  7. 7.

    https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/kryo.

  8. 8.

    http://tinyurl.com/chronodb-github.

  9. 9.

    https://flywaydb.org/.

  10. 10.

    http://www.liquibase.org/.

  11. 11.

    We use the term “client” to refer to application code that operates on top of ChronoSphere. This can be a remote method invocation, another thread or simply a method call to the public API.

  12. 12.

    www.txture.io.

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Haeusler, M., Trojer, T., Kessler, J., Farwick, M., Nowakowski, E., Breu, R. (2018). Combining Versioning and Metamodel Evolution in the ChronoSphere Model Repository. In: Tjoa, A., Bellatreche, L., Biffl, S., van Leeuwen, J., Wiedermann, J. (eds) SOFSEM 2018: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10706. Edizioni della Normale, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73117-9_11

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