A new tool for URDAD to Java EE EJB transformations

  • Authors:
  • Craig Edwards;Stefan Gruner

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pretoria, South Africa;University of Pretoria, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Following the Object Management Group's (OMG) Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approach, the semi-formal, service-orientated "Use Case, Responsibility Driven Analysis and Design" (URDAD) method is used by requirements engineers to specify a software system's functional properties in a Platform Independent Model (PIM). PIMs are represented using the URDAD Domain Specific Language (DSL), and thus conform to the URDAD MOF meta model. As a result, they can be transformed into Platform-Specific Models (PSM) for frameworks such as Java Platform Enterprise Edition (JEE) Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). This paper describes the semi-automatic transformation of a URDAD PIM into a EJB PSM, which is the basis for the further generation of EJB program code. For this purpose, a new prototype CASE tool was implemented to facilitate such transformations. The tool was evaluated using a non-trivial example project, with results indicating that it produces the PSM and template code that constitutes the static Java EE EJB structural representation of the example PIM.