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[news.eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2] Re: SoaML support

Hi Vlad,

nice! I think that SoaML is a good basis for an entire SOA framework. According to OMG SoaML can be used together with BPMN etc. Would be great to combine all these SOA relevant standards within one tool to get an integrated tool chain.

Take a look at this:

http://www.opengroup.org/projects/soa/uploads/40/20044/W096.pdf

It shows the different open standards for SOA and their relations.

Best regards

Michael

Hi Michael,

The idea is really good. In 2006 I asked a phd student to complete a transformation rule engine to create Bpel executable code directly from a state diagram. Everything worked fine and the student got its degree :-)
The feature has been included in the tool but nobody has really used it till today.


It could be because we have just added a code generation feature and not a full profile. It seems also that this profile is only now an official OMG profile. I found that Sparx is providing such a profile, you could have look.

My idea is that too many models are not possible in an agile project, therefore having SOA and UML using the same metamodel would simplify project complexity and allow round trip during project life. It could save over 80% of time to delivery projects. This is not a joke, because developers are useful and having object approach with SOA in a metamodel logic is the key to save time and add quality, maintainability to new projects. This approach can't really work for exiting projects but for new project this is really perfect.

It seems that market is getting more mature and this idea is shared by more and more person. The SOAML profile is a first step and really cool.
I will ask the dev team to complete this profile immediately and also includes the second code generation step with graphical stereotypes features in the tool by the end of the year. Thanks for your post and helping ISV to discover your needs.


Vlad,