Open Model CourseWare (OMCW) Available Resources: Teaching Material

List of Chapters

• 1: Prerequisite Language Level

  This chapter presents two languages required for understanding the content in the other chapters: the part of UML for creating class diagrams and Object Constraints Language (OCL). The presentation of the full UML 2.0 is given in Chapter 5.

• 2: Concepts and Definitions. Historical Perspectives

  This chapter introduces the basic concepts in MDE and how they evolved in the last decades.

• 3: Context of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE): Modelling, Integration

  This chapter outlines the motivation for MDE and the basic problems tackled in MDE.

• 4: Principles of MDE. The OMG Modelling Stack

  This chapter presents the concepts of model, metamodel, and metametamodel and how they are employed in the OMG modelling stack.

• 5: Guided Tour in OMG and other MDE Standards

  This chapter presents the important standards in MDE. It covers OMG standards such as MOF, UML 2.0, XMI, etc. and also other standards developed outside OMG such as JMI.

• 6: Process Models

  This chapter presents some models of processes, e.g. the SPEM (Software Process Engineering Metamodel Specification).

• 7: Model Executability

  This chapter covers initiatives like Action Semantics for UML and Executable UML.

• 8: Platform Models

  This chapter gives examples of various platforms and their models (e.g. Corba Component Model - CCM).

• 9: Business Models

  This chapter presents a number of business models such as EDOC.

• 10: Transformation Models

  This chapter is devoted on model transformations. It gives information about various transformation languages and related standards such as QVT.

• 11: MDE Case Studies and Success Stories

  This chapter presents non-trivial examples of application of MDE techniques and real-life cases where MDE has been successfuly applied.

• 12: MDE Tools and Frameworks

  This chapter gives an overview of the currently available tools in MDE (both commercial and open source).

• 13: MDE Framework Presentation: Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)

  This chapter presents the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF).

• 14: MDE Framework Presentation: Software Factories

  This chapter presents the Software Factories by Microsoft.

• 15: Relations of MDE to other technologies

  This chapter positions MDE in a broader context and relates it to other technologies such as XML, Web Services, Semantic Web, etc.

• 16: Theoretical basis for MDE

  This chapter presents the theoretical underpinnings of concepts like model, modelling, metamodelling, etc.

• 17: Miscellaneous

  This chapter gathers all the resources that do not specifically belong to any other chapter.