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Revision as of 04:45, 21 January 2010

The goal of the SimpleTransformationsChain plug-in is gathering the infrastructure and technologies plug-ins and providing orchestration of these plug-ins. These additional facilities reuse the features offered by the other plug-ins in order to allow performing more elaborate operations and complex tasks, such as directly generating a UML model from a Java project. It also provides an additional feature trying to detect bidirectional associations in target UML model.

Description

After discovery of your application, you will obtain a UML model. This model could be imported in some usual modelers like Papyrus or UML2 Tools from Modeling project.

An example of UML model discovered from famous Pet Store application

Contextual menu

The SimpleTransformationsChain plugin offers simple Eclipse contextual actions to dynamically launch the additionally provided features.

You can launch the “Discover UML model from Java project” action from a Java project by right-clicking on the corresponding Java project (into your workspace) and then selecting the appropriate action in the provided contextual menu.

Contextual menu populated whit MoDisco entries

Launch configuration

The SimpleTransformationsChain plugin is conform to Discoverer extension point, so in launch configurations, you are able to create a discoverer launcher dedicated to a project.

Launch configuration of SimpleTransformationsChain discoverer for Pet Store application

Java API

To use programmatically the SimpleTransformationsChain plugin, you will have to instantiate the class ModelplexKnowledgeDiscoveryFramework and use following method:

public Resource getUML2ModelFromJavaSource(IJavaProject javaProject,URI umlTargetModelUri) throws ATLCoreException;

Requirements

Eclipse Galileo with modeling plugins:

  • EMF
  • EMF UML2
  • ATL 3.0.0

A complete bundle of Modeling components can be found at this url: Eclipse Modeling Galileo Bundle

Warning : after installation, you will have to change your eclipse settings (file eclipse.ini) to increase memory size allowed to 1Go at least, parameter "-Xmx1024m".

Example :

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.200.v20090520.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.modeling.product
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms40m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:ThreadStackSize=4096

Team

Gabriel Barbier (Mia-Software)

Install

To install this plugin, you will have to retrieve it and its dependencies from MoDisco SVN. All following bundles are available in folder "plugins/trunk":

  • org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.modelplex
  • org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.kdm.uml2converter
  • org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.j2se5
  • org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.j2se5.discoverer
  • org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.kdm
  • org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.common.core

User manual

To illustrate SimpleTransformationsChain plugin, we will use a sample inspired from the Pet Store Application.

Get and install use case

The models are available from MoDisco SVN (how to...) in subdirectory "examples/trunk/org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.usecase.simpletransformationschain" or from downloadable archive. If you use a SVN client in eclipse (Subversive or Subclipse), the project will be immediately available in your Eclipse workspace.

Sources of Pet Store application are available from Sun downloads. You may have to download several libraries to obtain an eclipse project without errors (JPA, JTA, JSF-apis and Servlets-jsp-apis). A complete bundle is also available from Mia-Software... To view this application in your Eclipse workspace, you will have to extract content of this archive, and use the "import" wizard (import project in workspace).

Get the UML model of Pet Store application

We will explains different ways to get the UML model, it will demonstrate how several simple steps have been combined to build a complex task : discover a UML model from a java project.

Basic way

It exists several tools that are each able to perform a specific task, we will see how each task works.

Get the java model

Open the "Run configurations..." dialog. Then, press the "New" button to create a configuration of type "MoDisco Discoverers".

Enter a name for this configuration, "PetStore reverse to J2SE5 model" for example. Select Discoverer kind "Discover J2SE5 model from java project". Enter path to the project of PetStore application.

Java Discoverer configuration element.

Finally, press "Run" button to get the J2SE5 model.

You could also use the the contextual menu (right click) when the project of Pet Store application is selected. Navigate in MoDisco/java menus, click on "Discover J2SE5 model from java project" menu item.

The J2SE5 model, a focus on SimpleCaptcha class.

Get the KDM model

Using the ATL transformation J2SE5toKDM, we will transform the J2SE5 model into a KDM model. We have to configure another configuration to perform such transformation.

Open the "Run configurations..." dialog. Then, press the "New" button to create a configuration of type "ATL Transformation".

Enter a name for this configuration, "Java to Kdm transformation" for example. Select ATL module in your workspace, "/Transformations/JavaToKdm.atl" for example. Select metamodels uris from EMF Registry (http://www.eclipse.org/MoDisco/J2SE5 and http://www.eclipse.org/MoDisco/kdm/action). Select source model in your workspace, and enter a path for your target model.

Java to Kdm ATL Transformation configuration element.

Finally, press "Run" button to get the KDM model.

You could also use the the contextual menu (right click) when the j2se5 model of Pet Store application is selected. Navigate in MoDisco menu, click on "Discover KDM model from J2SE5 model" menu item.

The KDM model, a focus on SimpleCaptcha class.

Get the UML model

Using the ATL transformation KDMtoUML, we will transform the KDM model into a UML model. We have to configure another configuration to perform such transformation.

Open the "Run configurations..." dialog. Then, press the "New" button to create a configuration of type "ATL Transformation".

Enter a name for this configuration, "Kdm to Uml transformation" for example. Select ATL module in your workspace, "/Transformations/KdmToUml.atl" for example. Select metamodels uris from EMF Registry ( http://www.eclipse.org/MoDisco/kdm/action and http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/2.1.0/UML). Select source model in your workspace, and enter a path for your target model.

Java to Kdm ATL Transformation configuration element.

Finally, press "Run" button to get the UML model.

You could also use the the contextual menu (right click) when the kdm model of Pet Store application is selected. Navigate in MoDisco menu, click on "Discover UML model from KDM model" menu item.

The UML model, a focus on SimpleCaptcha class.

Initialize a workflow

To be able to chain previous tasks, MoDisco a workflow initializer.

Open the "Run configurations..." dialog. Then, press the "New" button to create a configuration of type "MoDisco Workflow".

Enter a name for this configuration, "Discovery of PetStore application" for example. Then, press the "Load..." button to successively add "PetStore reverse to J2SE5 model" configuration, "Java to Kdm transformation" configuration and "Kdm to Uml transformation" configuration.

The workflow configuration element to represent all steps to get a Uml model from a java project.

Finally, press "Run" button to get the UML model. This is a first way to get a Uml model from a java application, however when parameters change (the selected java application, target uml model, ...), you will have to change it in different configurations and check coherency of all steps.



SimpleTransformationsChain way

Open the "Run configurations..." dialog. Then, press the "New" button to create a configuration of type "MoDisco Discoverers".

Enter a name for this configuration, "PetStore reverse to UML model" for example. Select Discoverer kind "Discover UML model from java project". Enter path to the project of PetStore application.

SimpleTransformationsChain Discoverer configuration element.

Finally, press "Run" button to get the UML model.

You could also use the the contextual menu (right click) when the project of Pet Store application is selected. Navigate in MoDisco/java menus, click on "Discover UML model from java project" menu item.

The UML model, a focus on SimpleCaptcha class.

Visualize the UML model

There is different possibility to visualize the target model, and explore informations located in.

Using MoDisco model browser

The MoDisco model browser show basically the model as a tree. It proposes a view of all instances sorted by metaclass, and offer the possibility to visualize all links in model (empty or not, cardinality, etc.).

more details ...

Using UML2 Tool

After installation of UML2 Tool, a component of Modeling/MDT project, you will be able to initialize class diagrams from the UML model.

One UML class diagram, a focus on SimpleCaptcha class.

Current limitations

As this component is an aggregation of existing components, its limitations reflect this architecture: the main limitations come from the KDM to UML converter.

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