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Top 5 posts in July 2010
- The discussion about VoltDB and its lack of foreign keys (even it is called a relational database)
- The presentation of our work on Modeling Safe Interface Interactions in Web Applications
- The
Microsoft dropping Quadrant - Another step backwards in its MDD strategy
After "refocusing" Oslo (in short, the Microsoft strategy for model-driven development consisting in the M modeling language + the Quadrant modeling environment + a model repository) we were left wondering if Microsoft still believed in model-driven development .
Open Health Tools - Model-Driven Health Tools project (MDHT)
The Open Health Tools - Model-Driven Health Tools project (MDHT) aims to provide modeling tooling extensions to the Eclipse Modeling Project for healthcare applications, and in particular, to produce implementations for the HL7 standard .Another interesting project to follow!
ICMT 2011 - International Conference on Model Transformation
As part of the ongoing preparations for the next edition of THE Int. Conf. on Model Transformations (ICMT), the steering committee has appointed the two PC-Chairs:
- Eelco Visser (also in twitter: @EelcoVisser )
- and myself (also in twitter @softmodeling )
Top 5 posts in June 2010
Time to review the five most popular blog entries in June 2010 (according to your votes: number of votes=number of clicks on the post)are, in this order,:
- The interview with Johan den Haan (Mendix)
- My proposal of a Turing test for code-generation tools
Rule Interchange Format is now a W3C Standard
W3C announces the publication of a new standard for building rule systems on the Web: Rule Interchange Format (RIF).
The goal of RIF is to facilitate the interoperation and interchange between various rule languages and rule engines. RIF defines a common XML serialization language for several declarative rule languages (like OMG SBVR, OMG PRR, SWRL, a subfamily of RuleML, etc)
Looking for new members for the AtlanMod team
AtlanMod research team at École des Mines de Nantes is opening new positions for postdoctoral fellows or research engineers in the field of Model-Driven engineering (including topics such as: model transformation, metamodeling, DSLs, UML, SBVR, business rules, model weaving, model management, reverse engineering and any other model-related aspects)
ATL wins the Best Live model synchronization award at the Tool Transformation Contest 2010
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 is available
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 !
Jolt awards for the best design and modeling tool
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)