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Vol: 52(66) No: 2 / June 2007 SmartFactory – Validation Framework for Meta-Modeling in Software Engineering Emanuel Tundrea “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Department of Computer Science, V. Parvan no 2, Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: emanuel@emanuel.ro Philippe Lahire Laboratoire I3S (CNRS-UNSA), University of Nice "Sophia Antipolis", 2000 Route des Lucioles, BP121, Sophia-Antipolis, France, e-mail: Philippe.Lahire@unice.fr Dan Pescaru “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Department of Computer Science, V. Parvan no 2, Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: dan@cs.upt.ro Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Department of Computer Science, V. Parvan no 2, Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: chirila@cs.upt.ro Keywords: software, model, prototype, factory, generative programming. Abstract We have to acknowledge an important principle in software engineering: in the world of software everything evolves: technologies, methodologies and applications. The complexity of a system is not usually found inside components or at their interfaces, but errors are more likely to be found in the interactions among software components. This is one of the main concerns of the Object-Oriented Programming principles which did not cure important issues faced by software companies these days on developing complex software for reuse and protecting the more and more evolving applications against technological obsolescence. The Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) project from OMG promotes the use of meta-modeling in order to drive the system’s design and implementation. In this context the paper presents: an approach that reviews the SmartModels briefly, introducing its principles, basic entities and main elements when defining a business-model; a prototype named SmartFactory which is based on Eclipse platform and its role is to validate the new approach. It addresses the paradigm of how to practically implement MDA principles and rules for software engineering. Therefore, it deals with important implementation issues based on Eclipse Platform. References [1] I. Attali, C. Courbis, P. Degenne, A. Fau, D. Parigot, C. Pasquier and C. Sacerdoti, “SmartTools: a development environment generator based on XML technologies”, XML Technologies and Software Engineering, Toronto, Canada, ICSE\'2001 Workshop, May 2001. [2] K. Czarnecki, U. Eisenecker, “Generative Programming: Methods, Techniques and Applications”, AddisonWesley, June 2000. [3] K. Czarnecki, J. Vlissides, “DomainDriven Development”, Special Track OOPSLA\'03, http://oopsla.acm.org/ddd.htm , 2003. [4] G. Kiczales, J. Lamping, A. Menhdhekar, C. Maeda, C. Lopes, M. Loingtier, J. Irwin, “AspectOriented Programming”, ECOOP\'97 – ObjectOriented Programming 11th European Conference, Jyväskylä, Finland, vol 1241, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 220-242, SpringerVerlag, June 1997. [5] P. Lahire, D. Parigot, C. Courbis, P. Crescenzo, E. Ţundrea, “An Attempt to Set the Framework of Model-Oriented Programming”, the 6th International Conference on Technical Informatics (CONTI 2004), Timişoara, Romania, Periodica Politechnica, Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science, Vol. 49 (63), 2004, ISSN 1224-600X, May 2004. [6] Object Management Group, “ModelDriven Architecture (MDA) and Meta Object Facility (MOF) Specification”, www.omg.org/mda [7] J. Palsberg, B. Jay, “The Essence of the Visitor Pattern”, COMPSAC\'98, 22nd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Vienna, Austria, August 1998. [8] E. Tundrea, P. Lahire, D. Parigot, C. Chirilã, D. Pescaru, SmartModels – An Approach For Developing Software Based On Models, 1st Romanian - Hungarian Joint Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence SACI\'2004, Timişoara, Romania, ISBN 963-7154-26-4, pp. 231-240, May 25-26, 2004. [9] P. Crescenzo, P. Lahire, E. Tundrea, “SmartModels: la généricité paramétrée au service des modèles métiers”, LMO 2006, pp. 151-166, Nîmes, France, March 2006. |