MoDisco/Components/v0.8

To facilitate reuse of components between several modernization solutions, MoDisco is organized in several layers

Infrastructure

All the components of this layer are available as plug-ins and provided in one single Eclipse feature

Feature Infrastructure 0.7 (released) contains :

• reference implementations of OMG/ADM metamodels (KDM and SMM)
• a transformation from KDM to UML
• a model browser to facilitate the navigation through a complex model
• a discovery manager to register and integrate discoverers into Eclipse
• a discovery workflow to easily chain several discoverers and transformers
• a sources discoverer which creates a KDM model describing the files and directories of an existing project
• a metrics visualizations builder which generates HTML, SVG or Excel outputs from a model containing metrics

Feature Infrastructure 0.8 contains :

• reference implementations of OMG/ADM metamodels (KDM and SMM)
• a set of tools for KDM
• a set of tools for SMM
• a model browser to facilitate the navigation through a complex model
• a discovery manager to register and integrate discoverers into Eclipse
• a discovery workflow to easily chain several discoverers and transformers
• a query manager which allows executing model queries independently of any technology
• a role manager which is a kind of virtual class extension
• a metrics visualizations builder which generates HTML, SVG or Excel outputs from a model containing metrics

Technologies

All the components of this layer are available as plug-ins and provided in several Eclipse features: one for each technology.

Feature J2SE5 0.7 (released) contains:

• a complete metamodel for the Java language
• a complete discoverer to create J2SE5 models from Java source code contained in a Java project
• a transformation from J2SE5 models to KDM

Feature Java 0.8 contains:

• a complete metamodel for the Java language
• a complete discoverer to create Java models from Java source code contained in a Java project
• a transformation from Java models to KDM

Feature XML 0.8 contains:

• a complete metamodel for the XML standard, subsetting W3C concepts
• a complete discoverer to create XML models from XML files

Use-Cases

All the components of this layer are available as plug-ins

• Simple Transformations Chain: creation of a UML model from a Java project, just aggregating discoverers from Infrastructure and Technologies layers.
• Model Filter: creation of a UML model containing dependencies for a Java classe selected in the Eclipse environment.
• Bugzilla metrics: conversion of Bugzilla data into Excel, HTML or SVG documents.
• BIRTSampleDB: discovery of model from a BIRT database.
• Performance-Annotated UML2 State Chart: discovery of performance information from an Excel file, computation of metrics using this information and application of them to a UML2 model using a Performance profile.

Incubation

The followings are components also available from MoDisco. However, they are not currently part of the standard MoDisco build.

The MOMOCS European Project provides:

• the MOMOCS Metamodel and corresponding Simple Editor
• the MOMOCS Transformation Tool
• the Travel Agency use case
• the Polimi Blog use case
• Feature CSharp 0.6 contains: a complete metamodel for the C# language; a transformation from CSharp models to KDM

Deprecated

• Feature JavaAST 0.2 contains: a complete metamodel for the Java language; a complete discoverer to create JavaAST models from Java source code contained in a Java project