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MDA Tool Components: a proposal for packaging know-how in model driven development

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As the Model Driven Development (MDD) and Product Line Engineering (PLE) appear as major trends for reducing software development complexity and costs, an important missing stone becomes more visible: there is no standard and reusable assets for packaging the know-how and artifacts required when applying these approaches. To overcome this limit, we introduce in this paper the notion of MDA Tool Component, i.e., a packaging unit for encapsulating business know-how and required resources in order to support specific modeling activities on a certain kind of model. The aim of this work is to provide a standard way for representing this know-how packaging unit. This is done by introducing a two-layer MOF-compliant metamodel. Whilst the first layer focuses on the definition of the structure and contents of the MDA Tool Component, the second layer introduces a language independent way for describing its behavior. An OMG RFP (Request For Proposal) has been issued in order to standardize this approach.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6, 8 rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015, Paris, France

    Reda Bendraou, Marie-Pierre Gervais & Alexis Muller

  2. Softeam, 144 Av. des Champs Elysées, 75008, Paris, France

    Philippe Desfray

  3. Université Paris X, 144 Av. des Champs Elysées, 75008, Paris, France

    Marie-Pierre Gervais

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Communicated by Prof. Miguel de Miguel.

This work is supported in part by the IST European project “MODELWARE” (contract no 511731) and extends the work presented in the paper entitled “MDA Components: A Flexible Way for Implementing the MDA Approach” edited in proceedings of the ECMDA-FA’05 conference.

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Bendraou, R., Desfray, P., Gervais, MP. et al. MDA Tool Components: a proposal for packaging know-how in model driven development. Softw Syst Model 7, 329–343 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-007-0058-8

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