Pragmatic MDA: Domain Specific Languages with Eclipse (EMF + GMF + oAW)

The use of UML in model driven development (MDD/MDA) is slowly declining. UML has proven to be too complex and often is almost, but not quite, what you need for large scale code generation and model driven development. In practice domain specific modeling languages have shown to allow for a more effective solution. They ensure that developers can only model what they should, no more and no less. Also the complexity of domain specific modeling languages is several magnitudes lower than UML. With the tools currently provided in the Eclipse environment it is now feasible to quickly define your own Domain Specific languages.

This presentation will show how to do this in the Eclipse environment using the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) and with special attention to openArchitectureWare (oAW), a state-of-the-art toolset to define model validation, model transformation and code generation.

Jos Warmer  Ordina SI Jos Warmer is author of books on UML, OCL and MDA. He is one of the authors of the UML standard and the main architect of the Object Constraint Language. Jos is partner within Ordina where he is responsible for model driven development in both the .Net and the Java departments. Jos is a regular presenter at national international conferences and an active member of the Eclipse Modeling community.