The ATL team (composed by Frédéric Jouault and Dennis Wagelaar ) won the Best Model Synchronization award at the live contest hold during the Tool Transformation Contest 2010 event. Check the TTC web page for more information on the contest and the winners of other awards (if not yet there, they will add this information soon)

ATL 3.1.0 has just been released.

As many of you already know, ATL is a model transformation language and toolkit available as an Eclipse/M2M component. In the field of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), ATL provides ways to produce a set of target models from a set of source models. This release brings a lot of improvements, both at the user interface level and core level. Read the
new improvements of this version !

Xavier Seignard has posted a list of all MDE bloggers he follows. The list looks quite complete (of course you should add him to the list!)
Remember that my own selected selection of bloggers on MDE (or software engineering in general) is available here

Enterprise Analyst (EAn) is an MDA tool for rapid and precise system prototyping based on UML models. Its ultimate goal is to offer a full UML based implementation platform as can be seen in the following tool schema

Greg Wilson sent me a link to the prestigious Jolt Awards that include a category for the best design and modeling tool . Don't forget to send your nomination (but no need to hurry, according to this our category is open until July next year)

Time to review the five most popular blog entries in May 2010 (according to your votes: number of votes=number of clicks on the post)are, in this order,:

• Discussion about big companies starting to believe in model-driven development
• Modeling and implementation of physical mobile workflows