MoDisco News

MoDisco News

• The XML metamodel implementation and corresponding discoverer are now available from the MoDisco technologies posted 04‑11‑2009

  The XML metamodel implementation and corresponding discoverer have recently been published into the MoDisco "Technologies". These generic tools allow discovering a complete model out of any XML document (independently from its XSchema or DTD). The model, which conforms to the XML metamodel, describes all the content of a given XML document.

  See http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/XMLDiscoverer for accessing the tools.

• Screencast: MoDisco Talk at ESE 2009 posted 29‑10‑2009

  A screencast from the MoDisco presentation at Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 is available.

• Screencast: MoDisco at ESE 2009, Modeling Symposium posted 28‑10‑2009

  A screencast from the MoDisco presentation at Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 is available.

• Talk on MoDisco at next Eclipse Summit Europe 2009 in Ludwigsburgh, Germany posted 05‑10‑2009

  There will be a short talk on the MoDisco project at the coming ESE 2009 event. It will be on Thursday 29th of October afternoon from 15:30.

  See the ESE website in order to get more information on this talk: http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2009/sessions?id=886

• The Java Discoverer is now available from the MoDisco technologies posted 02‑10‑2009

  The Java Discoverer has just been published into the MoDisco "Technologies". This generic tool is about discovering a complete model out of the source code of a Java application. The model, which conforms to the Java metamodel, describes all the structural concepts (from packages up to method invocations and comments) and links between code elements (method invocations, variables usage, class inheritance, etc).

  See http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/JavaDiscoverer2 for accessing the tool.

• The Java Metamodel implementation is now available from the MoDisco technologies posted 02‑10‑2009

  The Java Metamodel implementation has just been published into the MoDisco "Technologies". This provides an EMF implementation of the version 3 of the Java Language Specification, which defines a metamodel for representing models of Java programs developed using the Java Development Kit 5 (JDK 5). This Java common metamodel is the result of the unification of the previous works realized around the J2SE5 and JavaAbstractSyntax metamodels.

  See http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/Java for accessing the tool.

• The new version of the MoDisco flyer-poster is now available posted 11‑09‑2009

  The new version of the flyer-poster describing the MoDisco project has just been published in the "Documentation" section.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/doc/MoDisco_Flyer-Poster_1.0.pdf for getting the flyer-poster.

• The KDM Source Discoverer is now available from the MoDisco infrastructure posted 08‑04‑2009

  The KDM Source Discoverer has just been published into the MoDisco "Infrastructure". This generic tool is about discovering a model out of an application files hierarchy, which conforms to the sub-package Source of KDM metamodel. The Source package defines a set of metamodel elements whose purpose is to represent the physical artifacts of the existing system, such as source files, images, configuration files, resource descriptions, etc.

  See http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/KDMSourceDiscoverer for accessing the tool.

• The J2SE5 Discoverer is now available from the MoDisco technologies posted 06‑04‑2009

  The J2SE5 Discoverer has just been published into the MoDisco "Technologies". This generic tool is about discovering a complete model out of the source code of a Java 5 application. The model, which conforms to the J2SE5 metamodel, describes all the structural concepts (from packages up to method invocations and comments) and links between code elements (method invocations, variables usage, class inheritance, etc).

  See http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/JavaDiscoverer for accessing the tool.

• The J2SE5 Metamodel implementation is now available from the MoDisco technologies posted 06‑04‑2009

  The J2SE5 Metamodel implementation has just been published into the MoDisco "Technologies". This provides an EMF implementation of the Java 2 Standard Edition 5 Metamodel (J2SE5) specification which defines a metamodel for representing models of Java programs developed using the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE), which is the premier platform for rapidly developing and deploying secure, portable applications that run on server and desktop systems spanning most operating systems.

  See http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/J2SE5 for accessing the tool.

• MoDisco poster to be presented at EclipseCon 2009, Santa Clara posted 12‑03‑2009

  This poster will present the MoDisco global architecture and some of the key components already available: Java discoverer and metamodel to create models from Java applications, a generic Model Editor to navigate through a reverse-engineered model and transformations to KDM and UML to export discovered models into tools compliant with those standards.

  See http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/sessions?id=822 for accessing the poster.

• The MoDisco Generic Model Browser is now available from the MoDisco infrastructure posted 02‑03‑2009

  The Generic Model Browser has just been published into the MoDisco "Infrastructure". This tool, provided by the MIA-Software company, is about providing a parameterizable feature-rich Ecore model editor which can be used to browse and edit any Ecore model more easily than with the default sample Ecore editor. This is particularly useful when dealing with models discovered from large legacy systems.

  See http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/ModelBrowser for accessing the tool.

• The Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM) implementation is now available from the MoDisco infrastructure posted 02‑03‑2009

  The Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM) implementation has just been published into the MoDisco "Infrastructure". This provides an EMF implementation of the KDM specification which defines a metamodel for representing information related to existing software assets and their operational environments. It can be intensively used for representing models discovered from large legacy systems.

  See http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/KDM for accessing the tool.

• MoDisco sources just moved from old Technology CVS to new Modeling SVN posted 17‑09‑2008

  The content of the previous MoDisco CVS located onto the Technology project CVS has been archived.
  
  The MoDisco fully IP-approved material is now available from the MoDisco Modeling SVN.
  
  The content of the MoDisco website has been updated accordingly. However note that, due to IP restrictions, some of the previously published use cases and tools are no longer available.

• The KDM-to-UML2 Converter is now available from the MoDisco infrastructure posted 31‑03‑2008

  The KDM-to-UML2 Converter has just been published into the MoDisco "Infrastructure". This tool, provided by the MIA-Software company, is about converting KDM models into UML2 models in order to allow integrating KDM-compliant tools (i.e. discoverers) with UML2-compliant tools (e.g. modelers, model transformation tools, code generators, etc).

  See http://wiki.eclipse.org/MoDisco/KDM/UMLConverter for accessing the tool.

• The "Performance-Annotated UML2 State Charts" new MoDisco use case is now available posted 24‑07‑2007

  The "Performance-Annotated UML2 State Charts" use case has just been published into the MoDisco "Use Cases". This complex use case contains a general description but also a complete implementation.

  It is about discovering performance information from an Excel file and building a Trace model from these data. Then, this generated model is computed in order to produce a Metrics model whose data are finally used to automatically apply a "Performance" profile to a UML2 state chart.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/useCases/PerformanceAnnotatedUmlStateCharts/ for consulting the use case.

• The complete "Generating Java Platform Ontologies" new MoDisco use case is now available (Deprecated) posted 07‑06‑2007

  The "Generating Java Platform Ontologies" use case has just been published into the MoDisco "Use Cases" section. This complex use case, developed by Dennis Wagelaar (VUB), contains a general description but also a complete implementation.

  It is about reverse engineering the Java API from the class library JAR files using the Jar2UML discovery tool (part of the MoDisco tool box), generating OWL ontologies from the created UML models using ATL model transformations, and finally bundling these ontologies with the PlatformKit Eclipse plugin.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/useCases/JavaPlatformOntologies/ for consulting the use case.

• The "Visual Basic Code Analysis" use case specification is now available (Deprecated) posted 11‑04‑2007

  The "Visual Basic Code Analysis" use case has just been published into the MoDisco "Use Cases" section. This complex use case, developed by the Obeo Company, currently contains a general description and is intented to reach completion by September 2007.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/useCases/VBCodeAnalysis/ for consulting the use case.

• The "Metrics Visualization Builder" tool is now available from the MoDisco infrastructure posted 03‑04‑2007

  The "Metrics Visualization Builder" tool has just been published into the MoDisco "Infrastructure". This simple generic tool (which is an ATL project for Eclipse) provides facilities for building visualizations (in several formats) from Metrics models.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/infrastructure/MetricsVisualizationBuilder/ for accessing the tool.

• The MoDisco flyer-poster is now available posted 23‑03‑2007

  The double page flyer-poster describing the MoDisco component has just been published in the "Documentation" section.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/doc/MoDisco_Flyer-Poster_1.0.pdf for getting the flyer-poster.

• The complete "SharenGo Java Legacy Reverse-Engineering" new MoDisco use case is now available (Deprecated) posted 27‑02‑2007

  The "SharenGo Java Legacy Reverse-Engineering" use case has just been published into the MoDisco "Use Cases" section. This complex use case, developed by the Argia-Engineering Company, contains a general description but also a complete implementation.

  It is about reverse engineering a Java application. It uses the Java Abstract Syntax discovery tool (from the MoDisco tool box) to discoverer the abstract syntax tree (AST) of each Java compilation unit (i.e. each source file). The generated models are then analyzed by model transformations in order to produce a SharenGo business model.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/useCases/JavaLegacyRE/ for consulting the use case.

• The "Java Abstract Syntax" discovery tool is now available from the MoDisco technologies posted 26‑02‑2007

  The "Java Abstract Syntax" discovery tool has just been published into the MoDisco "Technologies". This simple tool (which is an Eclipse plug-in based upon MoDisco) is fully implemented and provides facilities for building Java AST models from Java compilation units.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/technologies/JavaAbstractSyntax/ for accessing the tool.

• The complete "Eclipse/BIRT Project Sample Database" new MoDisco use case is now available posted 23‑02‑2007

  The "Eclipse/BIRT Project Sample Database" use case has just been published into the MoDisco "Use Cases". This complex use case contains a general description but also a complete implementation.

  It is about discovering the information on the content of the "Classic Models" BIRT sample database, by using the database content discovery facility of the generic "Relational Database Information" discovery tool (from the MoDisco tool box), and then generating a specific ClassicModels model.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/useCases/BIRTSampleDB/ for consulting the use case.

• The "Relational Database Information" discovery tool is now available from the MoDisco tool box (Deprecated) posted 15‑02‑2007

  The "Relational Database Information" discovery tool has just been published into the MoDisco "Tool box" section. This simple tool (which is an Eclipse plug-in based upon MoDisco) is fully implemented and provides facilities for buidling database schema or content models from already existing databases.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/toolBox/RelationalDBInformation/ for accessing the tool.

• Creation and initialization of the MoDisco "Tool Box" section (Deprecated) posted 15‑02‑2007

  We just create and initialize the MoDisco tool box. In the initial version, we provide the "Relational Database Information" discovery tool as well as pointers to the already existing ATL and AMW Eclipse components. Of course, the tool box will be updated regularly: documentation and implementations will be added to already existing tools, new ones will be described, etc.

  Do not hesitate to post messages on the MoDisco newsgroup (eclipse.modeling.gmt.modisco) if you have any particular interests and/or questions about any of the presented tools. We are also always interested by new ideas and propositions of possible other model discovery tools based upon the MoDisco approach.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/toolBox for accessing the tool box.

• MoDisco model handlers' source code is now available from the MoDisco CVS (Deprecated) posted 14‑02‑2007

  Interfaces and implementation for EMF have been committed. A model handler's implementation is a driver for handling models, either by wrapping an existing modeling framework (EMF, MDR/JMI, etc) or by implementing a brand new one.

  New model handler implementations will be committed soon.

  This first abstraction layer will let MoDisco use some models from different sources (XMI 1.x/XMI 2.x for instance) and from different modeling spaces (MOF, Ecore, KM3...).

  The source code of MoDisco's model handlers is available on CVS: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/org.eclipse.gmt/MoDisco/plugins/

• Use cases sources are now also available from the MoDisco CVS (Deprecated) posted 05‑02‑2007

  The "Bugzilla Metrics" and "Unix File System" use cases sources have just been committed into the MoDisco CVS.

  See http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/org.eclipse.gmt/MoDisco for navigating through the MoDisco CVS.

  See http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextech.cgi/org.eclipse.gmt/MoDisco/use-cases for getting the use cases sources.

• The complex and complete "Bugzilla Metrics" new MoDisco use case is now available posted 26‑01‑2007

  The "Bugzilla Metrics" use case has just been published into the MoDisco "Use Cases". This complex use case contains a general description but also a complete implementation.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/useCases/BugzillaMetrics/ for consulting the use case.

• The "Unix File System" new MoDisco use case is now available (Deprecated) posted 20‑12‑2006

  The "Unix File System" use case has just been published into the MoDisco "Use Cases" section. This use case contains a general description but also a first available implementation of the discoverer.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/useCases/UnixFileSystem/ for consulting the use case.

• The "MoDisco Overview" slides are now available posted 13‑12‑2006

  The presentation providing the overview of the MoDisco component has just been published in the "Documentation" section.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/doc/MoDisco_Overview_1.0.pdf for getting the slides.

• Creation and initialization of the MoDisco "Use Cases" section (Deprecated) posted 12‑12‑2006

  We just create and initialize the list of the MoDisco "model discovery" use cases. In the initial version, we only provide general descriptions of three different use cases: Java Abstract Syntax, Relational DB Schema and Relational DB Content. Of course, the use cases will be updated regularly: documentation and implementations will be added to already existing use cases, new ones will be described, etc.

  Do not hesitate to post messages on the MoDisco newsgroup (eclipse.modeling.gmt.modisco) if you have any particular interests and/or questions about any of the presented use cases. We are also always interested by new ideas and propositions of possible other model discovery use cases.

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/useCases for consulting the use cases list.

• Update of the list of MoDisco related projects posted 13‑11‑2006

  We just update the list of the related projects by providing its initial version. Of course, this list will be updated regularly.

  Do not hesitate to post messages on the MoDisco newsgroup (eclipse.modeling.gmt.modisco) if you want your project to be indexed on this list or if you want to add a link to the Eclipse/GMT MoDisco component on your own site!

  See http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/relatedProjects.php for consulting the related projects list.

• Creation of the MoDisco component posted 03‑11‑2006

  Creation of MoDisco component under GMT.

  MoDisco (for Model Discovery) is an Eclipse GMT component for model-driven reverse engineering. The objective is to allow practical extractions of models from legacy systems. Because of the widely different nature and technological heterogeneity of legacy systems, there are several different ways to extract models from such systems. MoDisco proposes a generic and extensible metamodel-driven approach to model discovery. A basic framework and a set of guidelines are provided to the Eclipse contributors to bring their own solutions to discover models in various kinds of legacy.

  More details are available here: http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/modisco/about.php.