1	What is MDT? Short Talk Kenn Hussey IBM Rational Software
2	Contents Overview Participants Components Themes Plan Items How Can You Help?
3	Overview Model Development Tools is an Eclipse Modeling subproject at http://www.eclipse.org/mdt Inspired by the Eclipse community’s need for more end user "tooling" from the Modeling project Purpose of MDT is to provide extensible frameworks and exemplary tools for the metamodels within the scope of the Modeling project First release tentatively scheduled for June 2007 (Europa)
4	Participants Project lead is Kenn Hussey Committers currently from IBM and Borland Potential contributions from Soyatec, Topcased, and others Collaborations with EMF and GMF projects Advocated by Ed Merks and Richard Gronback
5	Components EMF Ontology Definition Metamodel (EODM) Object Constraint Language (OCL) Unified Modeling Language 2.x (UML2) UML2 Tools XML™ Schema Infoset Model (XSD)
6	Components – EODM EODM is an implementation of the RDF(S)/OWL metamodels of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) OMG standard using EMF with additional parsing, inference, model transformation, and editing functions EODM provides an EMF-based RDF/OWL model an RDF/OWL parser an RDF/OWL reasoner an RDF/OWL transformer a workbench which provides basic Eclipse editors for RDF/OWL
7	Components – OCL OCL is an implementation of the Object Constraint Language (OCL) OMG standard for EMF-based models OCL provides APIs for parsing and evaluating OCL constraints and queries an Ecore implementation of the OCL abstract syntax model, including support for serialization of parsed OCL expressions a visitor API for analyzing/transforming the AST model of OCL expressions an extensibility API for clients to customize the parsing and evaluation environments used by the parser
8	Components – UML2 UML2 is an EMF-based implementation of the Unified Modeling Language 2.x OMG standard for the Eclipse platform UML2 provides a useable implementation of the metamodel to support the development of modeling tools a common XMI schema to facilitate interchange of semantic models test cases as a means of validating the specification validation rules as a means of defining and enforcing levels of compliance
9	Components – UML2 Tools UML2 Tools is a set of GMF-based editors for viewing and editing UML™ models UML2 Tools provides editors for class diagrams component diagrams state machine diagrams activity diagrams
10	Components – XSD XSD is a reference library that provides an API for use with any code that examines, creates, or modifies documents based on the XML Schema W3C standard XSD provides APIs for manipulating components of an XML Schema manipulating the DOM-accessible representation of XML Schema as a series of XML documents keeping these representations in agreement as schemas are modified
11	Themes – MDT 1.0 Appeal to a Broader Community Be a Better Platform Make Simpler to Use Restructure Modeling Components Increase Modeling Component Cohesion Enable Consistent Multi-language Support
12	Plan Items – EODM 2.0 Appeal to a Broader Community Standard Compliance Dynamic Typing RDF/OWL Parsing and Serialization RDF/OWL Reasoning Increase Modeling Component Cohesion RDF/OWL Transformation to/from Ecore
13	Plan Items – OCL 1.1 Appeal to a Broader Community Stand-alone Support Be a Better Platform Parsing API EMF 2.3 / J2SE 5 Support Make Simpler to Use Improved Documentation
14	Plan Items – OCL 1.1 Restructure Modeling Components LPG Increase Modeling Component Cohesion Integration with UML Enable Consistent Multi-language Support ICU4J
15	Plan Items – UML2 2.1 Appeal to a Broader Community Static Profile Definition Be a Better Platform Ant Task for Ecore Importer Make Simpler to Use Create Child/Sibling Menu Reorganization Improved Documentation
16	Plan Items – UML2 2.1 Increase Modeling Component Cohesion Eclipse 3.3 / EMF 2.3 Compatibility XML Primitive Types Integration with OCL Enable Consistent Multi-language Support BiDi Support
17	Plan Items – UML2 Tools 1.0 Appeal to a Broader Community Class Diagrams State Machine Diagrams Component Diagrams Activity Diagrams
18	Plan Items – XSD 2.3 Appeal to a Broader Community Java™ SE 5.0 Support Increase Modeling Component Cohesion XSD2Ecore Enhancements
19	How Can You Help? Develop and use tools based on MDT components Report bugs Participate in newsgroup discussions Write articles Become an MDT contributor!
20	Legal Notices UML is a trademark of the Object Management Group XML is a trademark of the World Wide Web Consortium Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others