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Paper Title : Executable UML plug-in for Eclipse
Author Name : A. M. Magar, N. J. Uke
Abstract : MDA is a standard from OMG and is used by industry as an approach to application design and implementation. MDA is a way to manage and organize enterprise architectures supported by automated tools and services for defining the models. MDA facilitates transformations between different model types. In MDA PIM models are directly transformed and executed. These PIM and PSM models and meta-models are created using UML and MOF. UML in its current state is not directly executable. It lacks action semantics to describe the steps executed by the system in response to events. Existing executable UML lacks a standardized Action Semantics. Executable UML is an attempt to make UML directly translatable and executable to 3rd or 4th generation programming languages using eclipse plug-in. Using EMF and GEF it is possible to create feature reach graphical editor for UML. These graphical UML models are stored in XMI format as models. Our proposed Eclipse xUML plug-in is part of MDA which provides rich UML class diagram editor along with palette which contains all UML notations. Plug-in combines Java perspective and class diagram perspective. Plug-in allows developer to edit class diagrams as models and it also adds action semantics to the class diagram using Java. xUML plugin makes use of existing features of eclipse to execute the models as Java project.
Keywords : Executable UML, Eclipse Plug-in, AST.
Cite this article : A. M. Magar, N. J. Uke " Executable UML plug-in for Eclipse " ,ICETTR-2013 ,Page No : 223-226.