JMI Tool Adapter

Within the scope of this research project, we support tool providers and third-party tool distributors who are interested in a metamodel-based adaptation of their product APIs (see figure below). Use case scenarios that show the usefulness of easy to use and uniform tool adapters/wrappers/APIs across tool boundaries are the development of

• (XMI-based) model export/import functionality
• development of model analysis and guideline checks,
• traceability link creation and management functionality,
• incremental change propagation and transformation algorithms,
• plugins for integrated SE development platforms.

Right now our Tool Adapter technology supports the complete MOF 2.0 metamodeling standard (a superset of the more popular ECLIPSE EMOF/ECORE/EMF metamodeling approach) and generates tool APIs that are Sun JMI/MDR standard compliant. Thus, we support the definition of light-weight and heavy- weight associations as well as the refinement and proper modularization of metamodels as used for the development of the UML metamodel.