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April 2010 Blog Posts (7)

EMF Facet, a new project for model customization and extensibility

How to dynamically extend and combine existing Ecore definitions without having to modify them?…

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Added by Frédéric Madiot on April 27, 2010 at 12:02 — 7 Comments

Designing Large Scale Software Systems for Change

Todays software system are of a complexity we can hardly manage. Even
harder than just maintaining a system is adopting the system to new
market needs. Changing an existing system is nearly impossible. Let's
explore why.

Read more here.

Added by Micha Riser on April 26, 2010 at 9:43 — No Comments

Read about Common Classes vs Domain Specific Classes

"Common Classes mean classes as we now them from object-oriented languages or UML. In a nutshell, such classes do have a class name, a base class, members variables and member functions."

What are… Continue

Added by Micha Riser on April 22, 2010 at 13:24 — 1 Comment

Architecture-Driven Modernization Case-Studies

William Ulrich and Philip Newcomb have recently published "Information Systems Transformation, Architecture-Driven Modernization Case-Studies", a reference book on Software Modernization.

This book has been written by two of the most active… Continue

Added by Frédéric Madiot on April 22, 2010 at 7:53 — No Comments

New Model-driven Code Generator: Actifsource Version 4.1 Released

I am proud to announce that version 4.1.2 of Actifsource is now available.

Actifsource is a code generator that integrates into the Eclipse IDE. It features creation and editing of meta-models, model instances and templates in the same workspace. Code generation happens in real-time whenever one of the elements change. Supported languages include Java, C/C++, Groovy, Ruby and…

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Added by Micha Riser on April 19, 2010 at 12:49 — No Comments

JEE, Flex and MDSD in Tunis

Last week I was in Tunis.

The weather was not as sunny as expected, but it was not the reason of my travel. I was…

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Added by Frédéric Madiot on April 15, 2010 at 18:56 — 1 Comment

deadline extension

Due to multiple requests (Easter time) the submission deadline for the Second Workshop on Behavioural Modelling - Foundations and Application (BM-FA 2010) has been extended to…

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Added by Ella Roubtsova on April 6, 2010 at 8:40 — No Comments