[news.eclipse.modeling.gmt.modisco] Re: Visual Basic Use Case - Work in

["Uday Kabe" <udaykabe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Quentin,

I would appreciate an update on this project.  Can  what you have now be 
made available as an alpha or beta version?

Thank you.

Uday


"Quentin Glineur" <quentin.glineur@xxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Currently working in the scope of its interest in MoDisco, Obeo will 
> develop and bring to it a Visual Basic 6 Use Case.
>
> This use case, which is intented to reach completion by September 2007,
> is mainly composed of a Visual Basic discoverer (Model Discovery phase) 
> and of two different analyzing tools (Model Understanding phase): each of 
> them will be made with the AMMA Platform and its corresponding tools.
>
> For Model Discovery phase, Obeo will put in its contribution, along with 
> the VB discoverer, the VB metamodel in KM3 and the corresponding textual 
> syntax description in TCS.
> This tool should be able to discover the internal structure of a VB system 
> including:
>           o classes
>           o attributes
>           o functions
>           o screens
>           o subs
>           o etc
>
> As for the Model Understanding phase, it will be provided two analysis 
> tools giving advanced information on the VB models (discovered by the 
> reverse-engineering process). The initial idea is to apply model-to-model 
> transformations on the discovered models in order to retrieve/compute the 
> required information.
>   - The UML class diagram exhibitor will be able to build UML models (in a 
> readable format) from input VB models.
>   - The measurement (metrics) provider will produce, in the HTML format, 
> different metrics computed from input VB models (such as the number of 
> class, functions, subs, etc in the system).
>
> The reference page is :
> http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/useCases/VBCodeAnalysis/
>
> Best regards,
> Quentin