On the customization of model management systems for file-centric IDEs

David Mendez Acuna (1) , Rubby Casallas (2) , Anne Etien (3)

1 Construcción de Software - Facultad de Ingéniería [Bogotá]
2 Software Construction Group
3 RMOD - Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution

Model-based solutions are becoming more sophisticated because of the advent of new types of models, languages, and editors. To deal with this complexity, some of the current Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) offer Model Management Systems (MMSs) that provide functionalities to visualize, navigate, and search the modeling artifacts existing in a workspace. Each MMS defines the types of modeling artifacts that it supports and, commonly, furnish extensibility mechanisms for including new ones. However, the use of those mechanisms usually requires a big implementation effort. As a result, when an MMS does not support all the types of modeling artifacts that a model-driven engineer uses, he/she discards it and ends up manipulating his/her solution through file system views which is not appropriate when projects become larger. In this paper we present some of our preliminary results towards the construction of MoMS-DL, a domain-specific language to define (and automatically generate) customized Eclipse-based MMSs improv- ing the daily work of model-driven engineers.

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

David Mendez Acuna, Rubby Casallas, Anne Etien. On the customization of model management systems for file-centric IDEs. The 13th Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling, Oct 2013, U.S. Outlying Islands. pp 57-62. ⟨hal-00913246⟩