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Video of Ivar Jacobson's talk on "What they don't teach you about software at school" is now online
The video of the talk that Ivar Jacobson gave at École des Mines de Nantes is now available online . My summary of the talk can be found here .
His talk was not explicitly about the SEMAT initiative though many of the ideas of the talk are an important part of his contribution to SEMAT.
Interoperability between Eclipse (EMF) and Microsoft (Oslo and DSL Tools) modeling tools
In the AtlanMod group we have been recently working on a model-driven solution to improve tool interoperability, specially focusing on the challenging problem of interoperability between tools with variable metamodels (i.e. tools that are able to manipulate data conforming to different metadata specifications; in this situation, data interoperability needs to interchange not only the data but also the metadata between the tools so that the target tool can correctly interpret the imported information).
Collaborative UML modeling with Creately
Today, Charanjit Singh writes a guest post to present Creately , an online diagramming tool that's build for collaboration. Enjoy the post!:
Top 5 posts in February 2010
According to your votes (number of votes = number of clicks on the post), the five most popular blog entries in February 2010 are (in this order):
New blog to follow: Richard Soley (OMG Chairman and CEO)
My latest addition to my list of recommended software engineering and modeling blogs is Richard Soley's blog .
As most of you already know, Richard is the Chairman and CEO of the OMG. His blog is a unique opportunity to get an inside view on what's going on at the OMG.
MDE diploma starts on Monday!
Next Monday we officially start the MDE Diploma - First International Post-Graduate Specialization Diploma on Model-Driven Engineering . The list of external lecturers we will have here in Nantes is impressive so I'm sure it's going to be a great success
Unbelivable software modeling patents
Some time ago, Johan den Haan pointed out that "MDA had been patented" . Indeed, if you read the description of this patent, they use the notions of platform-independent and platform-specific "components" and the idea that platform-specific components could be generated from the platform-independent ones. Sounds familiar? (and, by the way, the patent is from 2009 much later than these concepts were included in the MDA OMG standard)
Coloring models
The idea of applying a specific color schema to (UML) models in order to facilitate their understandability can be traced back to (at least) Peter Coad, Eric Lefebvre, and Jeff De Luca in their book Java Modeling In Color With UML . In there they proposed a four-color schema for UML class diagrams. In short, the color of a class would depend on the type of domain concept modeled by that class (moment-interval -> pink, party-place-thing -> green, description -> blue, role-participation -> yellow).
Deep interviews with modeling and MDE tool creators - A coffee with series
I learnt a lot when Greg and I did our study of web-based project management portals , specially when interviewing their creators.
Even if each interview took a lot of time (preparing the interview, transcribing and processing it,...), it was arguably the best source of information and by far the most interesting one since it gave us the opportunity to understand the rationale behind the tool design decisions and evolution.
Eclipse Doc2Model project has been created
The new Eclipse Doc2Model project has now been created. The goal of this project is to provide an extensible framework for producing EMF models from plain text and structured documents (e.g. OpenOffice documents).
The idea is to take textual documents containing the specification of the system and, instead of retyping information to produce the corresponding model, try to (partially) generate the corresponding system model by parsing and analyzing the text.