1	Eclipse UML2 Project Poster Session
2	Contents Overview Goals Challenges Status Milestones Work Items How Can You Help?
3	Overview An Eclipse Modeling Development Tools subcomponent at http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/?project=uml2#uml2 An EMF-based implementation of the UML™ 2.0 metamodel for the Eclipse platform Project lead is Kenn Hussey (khussey@ca.ibm.com) Partners include Borland, Ericsson, and Unisys Users include IBM, Metanology, Omondo, and Ontogenics
4	Goals Provide a useable implementation of the metamodel to support the development of modeling tools Provide a common XMI schema to facilitate interchange of semantic models Provide test cases as a means of validating the specification and implementation Provide validation rules as means of defining and enforcing levels of compliance
5	Challenges Since the specification isn’t finalized, the API is a moving target The current structure of the standard metamodel (w.r.t. package merge, redefinitions, subsets/supersets) makes the mapping to Java difficult An XMI schema based on the current specification could not be used for interchange without transformations There are a number of errors in the specification which, until fixed, make the API and XMI schema difficult to use Compliance points for UML™ 2.0 are a subject of much debate within the modeling community
6	Status – Metamodel EMF-generated API based on a collapsed version of the metamodel in which package merges and a majority of the redefinitions have been factored out Includes mechanisms to support derived union, redefines, and subsets constraints Generated using a customized Rose2Ecore builder and JET templates
7	Status – Interchange Default XMI schema generated using EMF Defines one namespace (http://org.eclipse/uml2.ecore) for all elements, thus supporting interchange Elements identified using Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs)
8	Status – Specification Errors discovered while using the API and/or XMI schema are being fixed and submitted as issues to the UML™ 2.0 Superstructure Finalization Task Force (FTF) UML™ 2.0 Superstructure FTF currently has a large number of unresolved issues, available at http://www.omg.org/issues/uml2-superstructure-ftf.open.html Tentative finalization date for UML™ 2.0 Specification is April 2004
9	Status - Compliance Validation rules to be evaluated using EMF Switch-based validator mechanism Validators are being implemented based on sets of OCL constraints May correspond to compliance levels when defined
10	Milestones Release 1.0 of UML2 to coincide with Eclipse 3.0 Will be based on EMF 2.0 Depends on successful finalization of UML™ 2.0 specification
11	Work Items Validation rules Resource migration mechanism Import/export from/to Rose (Unisys XMI) Unit tests Javadoc Bug fixes
12	How Can You Help? Develop tools based on UML2 Report bugs Participate in newsgroup discussions Write articles Become a UML2 contributor