Category Archives: MDD

CoFluent Design (MDE approach for embedded systems) bought by Intel

Cofluent

In another great success for our “Modeling Valley” in Nantes, CoFluent design has announced they have been bought by Intel (announcement in English in their home page, an interview in French here). Cofluent was specialized in providing modeling tools for the design and simulation (especially performance simulation) of mixed HW/SW systems like embedded devices. For

All online code generation services now FREE

productivity

Big news today. All the online code generation services of this portal are now available for free! Take your simple UML class diagram (see the list of supported UML tools) and generate: SQL DDL scripts for all major databases. Details full-fledged Django (Python) web applications. Details Doctrine models for the Symfony / PHP framework. Details

Sculpture Toolkit, the Ultimate .NET Modeling Platform

sculpture

We start the week with a guest post by Ahmed Negm presenting Sculpture toolkit (built on top of Visual Studio 2010): Sculpture Toolkit is a modeling platform that contains a set of generative components and runtime infrastructures for developing .NET model-based solutions. Sculpture Toolkit enables you to create your own (meta)models ‘S-MODEL‘, textual languages ‘S-PAD‘, graphical

MDD pays off in the mid-term: an industrial experiment

Glass’s Law (discovered here ) states that ANY new tool OR technology makes you INITIALLY less productive.

Information about the new UMLtoPython/Django service

A description of the service is now available here

Changing the pricing strategy for the online code generation services

Some of you have already noticed that we have made some deep changes in the portal’s code-generation services (FOR instance the release OF a new UMLtoPython/Django service, details coming soon).

(In Spanish) MDD that works – presentation

Yesterday I gave a talk at the SGVirtual conference. It was great to see several hundred people interested in MDD topics (well, to be honest, with more than 5000 people registered for the conference I’d say ALL sessions had the same success :-) )

Generating operation specifications from UML class diagrams: A model transformation approach

My paper “Generating operation specifications from UML class diagrams: A model transformation approach” (together WITH Manoli Albert, Cristina Gómez AND Vicente Pelechano) has just been accepted FOR publication IN the
Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal.

Added support for Modelio modeling tool in the portal services

A new version OF the XMItoXMI , UMLtoDB AND UMLtoPHP services WITH support FOR the Modelio tool has been released.

Can you do 100% generation from UML models? <- Wrong Question!

FROM TIME TO TIME we see a question LIKE “Can I generate 100% of my code from UML models?” (e.g. here ). The answer IS YES but TO me, this IS the WRONG question.

Sure, you can generate every single line OF your application code FROM your UML models (if you think UML IS NOT expressive enough take a look AT UML Executable ), however TO me the important question IS WHEN IS it worth TO do it? .

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