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

  • Authors:
  • David Méndez-Acuña;Rubby Casallas;Anne Etien

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia;Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia;Université Lille 1, Lille, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 ACM workshop on Domain-specific modeling
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

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, furnishes 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 improving the daily work of model-driven engineers.