[News.eclipse.technology.mddi] Re: Thesis about MDDi

[sebastien.demathieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sébastien Demathieu)]

Hello Thiago,

Thanks for your interest in the MDDi project. Model-Driven Development 
(including the OMG standards supporting the MDA initiative) and Web 
Services can be indeed applied together to define new tool integration 
techniques.

The goal of the model bus, component developed in the context of MDDi, is 
to enable modeling tool interoperability based on the concept of "modeling 
service". Such a service can rely on the Eclipse plug-in mechanism or on 
distributed Web Services, to support operations applied on models. You 
will find detailed specifications in the documents referenced below:

- 
http://www.eclipse.org/mddi/D3.1%20ModelBus%20Architecture%20Specification%20-%20Volume%20I.pdf
- 
http://www.eclipse.org/mddi/D3.1%20ModelBus%20Architecture%20Specification%20-20Volume%20II.pdf

If you are looking for resources on related topics for your Master's 
thesis, you can take a look at this (non-exhaustive) list of publications:

- Model bus: towards the interoperability of modelling tools, X.Blanc et 
al, published at the MDAFA 04 conference 
(http://www.ida.liu.se/~henla/mdafa2004/program.html).

- Modeling Services and Web Services: Application of ModelBus, X.Blanc et 
al, published the SERP 05 conference 
(http://people.cs.und.edu/~reza/SERP05-SCHEDULE).

- A comparative study of metamodel integration and interoperability in UML 
and Web Services, A. Staikopoulos et al, published at the ECMDA-FA 06 
conference (http://www.ecmda-fa.org/history.shtml).

- Tool Integration Patterns, G. Karsai, A. Lang, S. Neema, ISIS Vanderbilt 
University, 
(www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/publications/archive/Karsai_G_9_0_2003_Tool_Integ.pdf).

Best Regards,

Sébastien



Thiago Souza wrote:

> I'm starting a Master Degree Thesis about MDA. My background is Web 
> Services Technology and I want to merge these technologies (MDA and WS). 
> I'm very interested in the MDDi project. I would like to know the new 
> trends of the MDDi project which can help me in my thesis.

> Best regards,

> Thiago Souza