Open Source Meets Open Specifications

Open Source Meets Open Specifications:
Eclipse and the OMG™

Long Talk

Kenn Hussey
Embarcadero Technologies

© 2008 by Embarcadero Technologies; made available under the EPL v1.0 | March 18, 2008

Contents
• Why
 Open Specifications + Open Source

• What
 OMG + Eclipse

• How
 Technology Adoption + Development

• Who
 Task Force Members + Project Committers

Open Source Meets Open Standards | Long Talk | © 2008 by Embarcadero Technologies; made available under the EPL v1.0

What Are Open Specifications?
• Specifications created and controlled, in an open and
fair way, by an association or standardization body
aimed at supporting interoperability and
interchangeability

• Open specifications are not controlled by a single
company or individual or by a group with
discriminatory membership criteria

• Specifications should not be confused with standards


What is Open Source?
• A set of principles and practices on how to write software

• According to the Open Source Initiative, terms must include:
1. Free Redistribution
2. Source Code
3. Derived Works
Integrity of The Authors’ Source Code
4.
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
7. Distribution of License
8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software
10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral


Open Specifications + Open Source
Industry standards lead to commoditization
 open specifications are interchange standards

Reference implementations offer competitive advantage
 development cost savings
 ease of gaining market share vs. closed platforms
 reference platform influences adopters

Reference implementations change rules for success
 shift towards solution-oriented products
 leverage common infrastructure to create specialized products
 ability to integrate becomes an opportunity as increased platform adoption
leads to more things to integrate


What is the OMG?
• The Object Management Group™ is an
international, open membership, not-for-profit
computer industry consortium

• OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration
standards for a wide range of technologies, including:
 Real-time
 Embedded and Specialized Systems
 Analysis & Design
 Architecture-Driven Modernization
 Middleware


Business Process Definition Metamodel
• BPDM provides the capability to represent and model
business processes independent of notation or
methodology, thus bringing these different approaches
together into a cohesive capability.

• Version 1.0 finalization underway

• FTF chaired by Antoine Lonjon (MEGA International)


Business Process Modeling Notation
• BPMN provides a standard visualization mechanism
for business processes defined in an execution-
optimized business process language

• Version 1.2 revision underway

• RTF chaired by Stephen White (IBM)


Business Process Model and Notation
• BPMN2 will reconcile the BPMN and BPDM standards
into a single language that defines the
notation, metamodel, and interchange format for
Business Process Diagrams (BPD) and represent the
amalgamation of best practices within the business
modeling community

• RFP response submission underway

• Submission teams chaired by Stephen White (IBM)
and Antoine Lonjon (MEGA International)

Diagram Definition
• DD will enable the definition and exchange of diagram
syntax definitions and their bindings to MOF-based
abstract syntaxes



Information Management Metamodel
• IMM will enable modeling and interchange of the
complete information lifecycle as well as traceability
among OO, Data, and XML models


• Submission team chaired by Harsh Sharma (MetLife)


Meta Object Facility
• MOF is an extensible model driven integration
framework for defining, manipulating and integrating
metadata™ and data in a platform independent
manner


• RTF co-chaired by Jim Amsden (IBM), Pete Rivett
(Adaptive), and Manfred Koethe (88solutions)


MOF Models to Text Transformation Language
• MOF M2T addresses how to translate a model to
various text artifacts such as code, deployment
specifications, reports, documents, etc.

• Version 1.0 available


MOF 2.0 Facility and Object Lifecycle
• MOF FOL separates out those aspects of MOF related
to communicating with and managing the quot;facilitiesquot;
responsible for providing the capabilities covered by
the other MOF specifications


• FTF chaired by Pete Rivett (Adaptive)


MOF Queries / Views / Transforms
• MOF QVT addresses a technology neutral part of
MOF and pertains to queries on models, views on
metamodels, and transformations of models


• RTF co-chaired by Mariano Belaunde (France
Telecom) and Sreedhar Reddy (TCS)


Object Constraint Language
• OCL specifies a formal language used to describe
expressions on UML models; these expressions
typically specify invariant conditions that must hold for
the system being modeled or queries over objects
described in a model


• RTF chaired by Mariano Belaunde (France Telecom)


Ontology Definition Metamodel
• ODM represents the foundation for an extremely
important set of enabling capabilities for Model Driven
Architecture® (MDA®) based software
engineering, namely the formal grounding for
representation, management, interoperability, and
application of business semantics


• FTF co-chaired by Evan Wallace (NIST) and Elisa
Kendall (Sandpiper Software)

Production Rule Representation
• PRR provides a standard production rule
representation that is compatible with rule engine
vendors' definitions of production rules and can be
used for interchange of business rules amongst rule
modeling tools (and other tools that support rule
modeling as a function of some other task)


• FTF chaired by Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG)


Semantics of Business Vocabulary and
Business Rules
• SBVR defines the semantics of business
vocabulary, business facts, and business rules; as well
as an XMI schema for the interchange of business
vocabularies and business rules among organizations
and between software tools


• RTF co-chaired by Cheryl Estep (Business Rules
Group) and Donald Chapin (Business Semantics)


Software Process Engineering Metamodel
• SPEM is used to describe a concrete software
development process or a family of related software
development processes

• Version 2.0 adopted


OMG Systems Modeling Language
• SysML is a general-purpose graphical modeling
language for specifying, analyzing, designing, and
verifying complex systems that may include
hardware, software, information, personnel, procedure
s, and facilities


• RTF co-chaired by Sanford Friedenthal (Lockheed
Martin) and Roger Burkhart (Deere & Company)


Unified Modeling Language
• UML is a graphical language for
visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting
the artifacts of distributed object systems


• RTF co-chaired by Bran Selic (IBM) and Pete Rivett
(Adaptive)


UML Diagram Interchange
• UML DI enables a smooth and seamless exchange of
documents compliant to the UML standard (referred to
as UML models) between different software tools


• RTF chaired by Manfred Koethe (88solutions)


UML Human-Usable Textual Notation
• HUTN specifies a notation for expressing other
specifications in terms of the UML Profile for
Enterprise Distributed Computing and its companion
UML Profile for CORBA



UML Profile for Modeling and Analysis of Real-
time and Embedded Systems
• MARTE adds capabilities to UML for model-driven
development of Real Time and Embedded Systems
(RTES); it provides support for
specification, design, and verification/validation stages


• FTF co-chaired by Sébastien Gerard (CEA), Bran
Selic (IBM), and Laurent Rioux (Thales)


UML Testing Profile
• The UML Testing Profile defines a language for
designing, visualizing, specifying, analyzing, constructi
ng and documenting the artifacts of test systems


• RTF co-chaired by Ina Schieferdecker (Fraunhofer
FOKUS) and Serge Lucio (IBM)


Workflow Management Facility (WMF)
• WMF provides standard interfaces for workflow
execution control, monitoring, and interoperability
between workflows defined and managed
independently of each other



XML Metadata Interchange
• XMI is a model driven XML Integration framework for
defining, interchanging, manipulating and integrating
XML data and objects


• RTF chaired by Manfred Koethe (88solutions) and Jim
Amsden (IBM)


What is Eclipse?
• Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on
building an extensible development platform, runtimes and application
frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the
entire software lifecycle

• The Eclipse projects can be conceptually organized into seven different
quot;pillarsquot; or categories:
 Enterprise Development
 Embedded and Device Development
 Rich Client Platform
 Rich Internet Applications
 Application Frameworks
 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)


Data Tools Platform
• DTP provides extensible frameworks and exemplary
tools enabling the development of offerings specific to
particular data-centric technologies

• Mature top-level project

• Lead is John Graham (Sybase)


Model Base
• Model Base is the foundation of DTP and consists of
the database definition model, SQL model, SQL query
model, and SQL XML query model

• Mature sub-project of DTP

• Lead is Der Ping Chou (IBM)


Eclipse Modeling Project
• EMP focuses on the evolution and promotion of
model-based development technologies within the
Eclipse community by providing a unified set of
modeling frameworks, tooling, and standards
implementations


• Leads are Richard Gronback (Borland) and Ed Merks
(IBM)


Eclipse Modeling Framework
• EMF is a framework and code generation facility for
building tools and other applications based on a
structured data model

• Mature sub-project of EMP

• Lead is Ed Merks (IBM)


Eclipse Modeling Framework Technology
• EMFT exists to incubate new technologies that extend
or complement EMF

• Incubating sub-project of EMP



Ecore Tools
• Ecore Tools provides a complete environment to
create, edit and maintain Ecore models

• Incubating component of EMFT

• Lead is David Sciamma (Anywhere Technologies)


Generative Modeling Technologies
• GMT aims to produce a set of prototypes in the area of
Model Driven Engineering (MDE); GMT is the official
research incubator project of EMP

• Incubating (non-conforming) sub-project of EMP

• Lead is Jean Bezivin (Université de Nantes)


UMLX
• UMLX is a concrete graphical syntax to complement
the MOF QVT model transformation language

• Incubating (non-conforming) component of GMT

• Lead is Ed Willink (Thales)


Graphical Modeling Framework
• GMF provides a generative component and runtime
infrastructure for developing graphical editors based
on EMF and GEF

• Mature sub-project of EMP

• Lead is Richard Gronback (Borland)


Model to Model Transformations
• M2M will deliver a framework for model-to-model
transformation languages


• Lead is Frédéric Jouault (Université de Nantes)


Model to Text Transformations
• M2T focuses on the generation of textual artifacts from
models; its purpose is to provide implementations of
industry standard and de facto Eclipse standard
model-to-text engines


• Lead is Paul Elder (IBM)


Model Development Tools
• MDT provides implementations of industry standard
metamodels and exemplary tools for developing
models based on those metamodels


• Lead is Kenn Hussey (Embarcadero Technologies)


Business Process Model and Notation
• BPMN2 will provide a metamodel implementation
based on the forthcoming Business Process Model
and Notation (BPMN 2.0) OMG specification

• Incubating component of MDT



EMF Ontology Definition Metamodel
• EODM is an implementation of RDF™(S)/OWL
metamodels of the Ontology Definition Metamodel
(ODM) using EMF with additional
parsing, inference, model transformation and editing
functions


• Lead is Lei Zhang (IBM)


Information Management Metamodel
• IMM will provide metamodel/profile implementations
based on the forthcoming Information Management
Metamodel (IMM) OMG specification




Object Constraint Language
• OCL is an implementation of the Object Constraint
Language (OCL) OMG specification for EMF-based
models

• Mature component of MDT

• Lead is Christian Damus (IBM)


OCL Tools
• OCL Tools aims to provide first-class support for
modelers working with specifications containing
expressions written in OCL


• Lead is Miguel Garcia (Hamburg University of
Technology)


Semantics for Business Vocabulary and Rules
• SBVR will provide a metamodel implementation and
sample tools based on the adopted Semantics of
Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR)
OMG specification


• Lead is Dave Carlson (XML Modeling)


Unified Modeling Language 2.x
• UML2 is an EMF-based implementation of the UML
2.x metamodel for the Eclipse platform


• Lead is James Bruck (IBM)


UML2 Tools
• UML2 Tools is a set of GMF-based editors for viewing
and editing UML models


• Lead is Michael Golubev (Borland)


XML Schema Infoset Model
• XSD is a library that provides an API for manipulating
the components of an XML Schema as described by
the W3C XML Schema specifications, as well as an
API for manipulating the DOM™-accessible
representation of XML




Textual Modeling Framework
• TMF will provide a parser that instantiates a model
from a textual representation based on a specified
metamodel and a feature-rich Eclipse editor that is
aware of the corresponding specified concrete syntax

• Incubating (non-conforming) sub-project of EMP

• Leads are Frédéric Jouault (Université de Nantes) and
Sven Efftinge (itemis AG)


Eclipse Technology Project
• ETP encapsulates three separate activity
streams, Research, Incubators, and Education, all
overseen by a single Project Management Committee
(PMC)


• Lead is Bjorn Freeman-Benson (Eclipse Foundation)


Eclipse Process Framework
• EPF aims at producing a customizable software
process engineering framework, with exemplary
process content and tools, supporting a broad variety
of project types and development styles

• Mature sub-project of ETP

• Lead is Per Kroll (IBM)


Java Workflow Tooling
• JWT aims to build design time, development time, and
runtime workflow tools in order to provide a
complete, flexible, interoperable Business Process
Management (BPM) platform

• Incubating sub-project of ETP

• Leads are Marc Dutoo (Open Wide) and Florian
Lautenbacher (University of Augsburg)


SOA Tools Platform
• STP provides frameworks and exemplary, extensible
tools that enable the
design, configuration, assembly, deployment, monitori
ng, and management of software designed around a
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Incubating top-level project

• Lead is Oisin Hurley (Iona)


STP BPMN Modeler
• BPMN provides an editor and a set of tools to model
business process diagrams using BPMN notation

• Incubating sub-project of STP

• Lead is Hugues Malphettes (Intalio)


Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP)
• TPTP provides an open platform supplying powerful
frameworks and services that allow software
developers to build unique test and performance
tools, both open source and commercial, that can be
easily integrated with the platform and with other tools


• Lead is Oliver Cole (OC Systems)


Testing Tools
• Testing Tools provides frameworks for building testing
tools by extending TPTP with testing
editors, deployment and execution of tests, execution
environments and associated execution history
analysis and reporting

• Mature sub-project of TPTP

• Lead is Paul Slauenwhite (IBM)


Web Tools Platform
• WTP extends the Eclipse platform with tools for
developing Web and Java EE applications, including
source and graphical editors for a variety of
languages, wizards and built-in applications to simplify
development, and tools and APIs to support
deploying, running, and testing applications


• Lead is David Williams (IBM)


Source Editing
• Source Editing provides source editing support for
typical quot;webquot; languages and the mixing of them, with a
focus on making the editors extensible and easily
reusable

• Mature sub-project of WTP

• Lead is Nitin Dahyabhai (IBM)


OMG + Eclipse
Eclipse is a contributing member of the OMG, which
means that it has voting rights in both the Domain
Technical Committee (DTC) and Platform Technical
Committee (PTC)

Natural intersection between Eclipse project
categories and OMG technology areas

Eclipse projects/sub-projects/components not
considered reference implementations of OMG
specifications

OMG Technology Adoption Process


OMG Request For Information Process


OMG Request For Proposal Process


OMG Specification Adoption Process


OMG Specification Finalization Process


OMG Specification Revision Process


Eclipse Development Process


Eclipse Project Review Process


Eclipse Project Declaration Process


Eclipse Project Creation Process


Eclipse Project Graduation Process


Eclipse Project Promotion Process


Eclipse Project Termination Process


Technology Adoption + Development
Both Eclipse and the OMG operate on a principle of one
organization, one vote

Obvious similarities between Eclipse and OMG processes
 Project Review ~ Specification Adoption
 Project Creation ~ Request For Proposal
 Project Graduation ~ Specification Finalization
 Project Promotion ~ Specification Revision

Releases of Eclipse projects are not synchronized with
availability OMG specification versions


OMG Membership Matrix
Contributing Domain Platform Influencing Trial Analyst
Government
University

YES YES YES YES YES YES
DTC Meeting
(One person) (One person twice
Attendance
per year)

DTC Vote YES YES NO NO NO NO

PTC Meeting
Attendance
per year)

PTC Vote YES NO YES NO NO NO

TF Attendance (One person) (One person twice
per year)

TF Vote YES YES YES YES NO NO

Subcommittee
Attendance
per year)

Subcommittee
YES YES YES NO NO NO
Vote


OMG Membership Matrix
Contributing Domain Platform Influencing Trial Analyst
Government
University

SIG
(One person)
Attendance

SIG Vote YES YES YES YES NO NO

TC Documents YES YES YES YES YES YES

Can hold an
OMG Board of YES YES YES NO NO NO
Directors seat

Can hold an
Architecture YES YES YES NO NO NO
Board seat

Can propose
Technology YES YES YES NO NO NO
for Adoption

Send/Receive On
(Send to lists only in
OMG Email Lists
first year)


Eclipse Membership
• Associate
 organizations that are a non-for-profit organization, standards
body, university, research institute or publisher which participates in the
development of the Eclipse ecosystem

• Add-in Provider
 organizations that view Eclipse as an important part of their corporate and
product strategy

• Strategic
 organizations that view Eclipse as a strategic platform and are investing
developer and other resources to further develop the Eclipse technology

• Committer
 individuals that are the core developers of the Eclipse projects and can
commit changes to project source code


IMM (SQL) and Model Base

88solutions

Adaptive

Embarcadero Technologies Actuate Corporation

KDM Analytics

IBM
MEGA International

Model Driven Solutions Sybase

No Magic

Sandpiper Software


MOF (EMOF) and EMF

88solutions
Adaptive
Borland

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Hewlett-Packard
Fujistsu
IBM Embarcadero Technologies
INRIA

Interactive Objects Software

SAP
Red Hat

Unisys
Softeam
XTG


MOF 2.0 FOL and EMF

88solutions

Adaptive


MEGA International
IBM

NIST


XMI and EMF

88solutions
Adaptive

Axway Software

Hewlett-Packard

MEGA International

Mercury Computer Systems IBM

NIST

Select Business Solutions

UMTP


MOF (EMOF) and Ecore Tools

88solutions
Adaptive
Borland

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Hewlett-Packard
Fujistsu
IBM Anywhere Technologies
INRIA


SAP
Red Hat

Unisys
Softeam
XTG


DD and GMF

Adaptive

Deere & Company

Fujitsu

Pathfinder Solutions IBM Borland

Sparx Systems

TCS


MOF QVT and UMLX

88solutions
Adaptive

Borland

Fachhochschule Vorarlberg

France Telecom

Laboratoire Informatique de Paris 6 THALES

Fraunhofer FOKUS

INRIA

No Magic
Softeam

TCS


MOF QVT and M2M

88solutions
Adaptive

THALES

Fachhochschule Vorarlberg

France Telecom

Laboratoire Informatique de Paris 6 Borland OBEO

Fraunhofer FOKUS

INRIA

No Magic
Softeam

TCS


MOF M2T and M2T

Compuware
IBM

Mentor Graphics

itemis AG
Pathfinder Solutions

SINTEF

OBEO
Softeam

TCS


BPMN 2.0 and BPMN2

BEA Systems
IBM

Oracle
SAP
Adaptive Embarcadero Technologies

Axway Software
EDS

Lombardi Software

Soyatec
MEGA International

Troux Technologies

Unisys


ODM and EODM

Adaptive

Deere & Company

Forschungszentrum Informatik

Hewlett-Packard
IBM
Kabira Technologies

No Magic
NIST

Raytheon

Sandpiper Software


IMM and MDT IMM

88solutions

IBM

Adaptive
KDM Analytics

XML Modeling
MEGA International

Model Driven Solutions

No Magic

Sandpiper Software


OCL and MDT OCL

88solutions

Adaptive

Borland

France Telecom

IBM
Fujitsu

NIST

SAP

Unisys


OCL and OCL Tools

88solutions

Adaptive

Borland

France Telecom
Hamburg University of Technology
IBM
Fujitsu

NIST SAP

Unisys


SBVR and MDT SBVR

Adaptive 88solutions
Business Rule Solutions

Business Rules Group Fujitsu

Business Semantics IBM

Deere & Company Xactium

Inferware ISUFI KnowGravity
XML Modeling
KDM Analytics Hewlett-Packard

MEGA International PNA Group

Neumont University TIBCO
Rule ML Initiative NIST EDS
Sandia National Laboratories
Sandpiper Software


MOF (CMOF) and UML2

88solutions
Adaptive
Borland

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Hewlett-Packard
Fujistsu
IBM Embarcadero Technologies
INRIA


SAP
Red Hat

Unisys
Softeam
XTG


UML and UML2

ARTISAN Software Tools

Armstrong Process Group

Data Access Technologies

Fujitsu Mentor Graphics Embarcadero Technologies

Lockheed Martin CEA/LETI
Motorola No Magic
Oracle IBM
Softeam
THALES
Sparx Systems
NIST OOSE
Telelogic
University of Oslo


UML and UML2 Tools

ARTISAN Software Tools

Armstrong Process Group


Fujitsu Mentor Graphics

Embarcadero Technologies Borland
Lockheed Martin NIST

Motorola No Magic IBM

Oracle Softeam CEA/LETI

Sparx Systems OOSE
Telelogic
THALES
University of Oslo


UML DI and UML2 Tools

88solutions

Adaptive
Borland

Unisys


IMM (XSD) and XSD

88solutions

Adaptive


KDM Analytics
IBM
MEGA International


No Magic

Sandpiper Software


UML HUTN and TMF


DSTC

IBM

France Telecom
Université de Nantes
IONA Technologies

Open-IT

Unisys


SPEM and EPF

Adaptive

Fujitsu
IBM Telelogic

European Software Institute

Softeam


WMF and JWT

CoCreate Software

Concentus CSE Systems

Data Access Technologies ObjectWeb

Digital Equipment Corporation

Genesis Development Corporation

DSTC FileNet Corporation Open Wide

EDS Fujitsu IBM

Hitachi ICL Enterprises

NIIIP Consortium Oracle University of Augsburg

Plexus Xerox

SSA Siemens Nixdorf


BPMN and STP BPMN

Adaptive
Adobe Systems

Axway Software
BEA Systems
BizAgi
EDS IBM


Intalio
Hewlett-Packard KnowGravity

Lombardi Software NIST

MEGA International TIBCO

No Magic ISUFI

Troux Technologies iGrafx


UML Testing Profile and Testing Tools

Fraunhofer FOKUS
Intel

Motorola

IBM
Telelogic

OC Systems

University of Oslo


IMM (XSD) and Source Editing

88solutions

Adaptive


KDM Analytics
IBM
MEGA International


No Magic

Sandpiper Software


Task Force Members + Project Committers
Eclipse membership includes individuals whereas
OMG membership is limited to (paying) organizations

Eclipse project committers are typically developers
whereas OMG task force members are often architects
or business people

Not enough overlap between organizations
implementing projects at Eclipse and those defining
corresponding specifications at the OMG


What Next?
• What
 Make OMG specifications more consumable
 Ensure Eclipse projects conform to applicable OMG specifications
 Recognize Eclipse projects as reference implementations

• How
 Base specifications on de facto standards (Eclipse technology)
 Align timing of OMG technology adoption and Eclipse development

• Who
 Remove platform/domain OMG membership restriction
 Resolve dissonance between Eclipse developers and OMG architects
 Ensure overlap of Eclipse project committers and OMG task force members


Eclipse/OMG Symposium
Thursday, March 20
10:10 a.m. in Room 201


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