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OpenDocument ReportS Generation
From Several Sources

2. Who is SODIUS?
● SODIUS is specialized in Systems Engineering and Interoperability
● Leading company to bridge different tools used by engineers
● Technology provider for IBM, No Magic, and a certified IBM Business
Partner.
● SODIUS provides solutions to interoperate with a number of engineering
tools : to transform models, to customize code generators, and create
Word / OpenDocument documentation from multiple models.
We have highly specialized tools and skills for:
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Model-Driven Engineering
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Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering
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Legacy Models handling
•
Long Life Cycle handling (>10 years)

3. What SODIUS do?
 SODIUS is an interoperability expert
 SODIUS is a software publisher
 Main product is MDWorkbench, an Eclipse based MDE tools
 DXL Editor a complete IDE for DOORS/DXL developpers
 MDWorkbench provides facilities to:
 Transform models to model (M2M)
 Transform model to Text (M2T) including document
generator
 SODIUS use MDWorkbench to develop COTS services
MDWorkbench

4. Why interoperate?
Engineers are connected by a process. No engineers work alone, need for higher
quality, more efficient communication, ability to do more with models (analysis, …)
Project Ctrl
Quality Mission
Experts
MDWorkbench & Test
SE Process
Design System
Teams Architects

5. Document generation for complete
integration
 Many tools, many domains implies several disconnected models
 Each tools has a document generator but support only data from
a considered tool (comparable to a metamodel)
 Only documents could produce human readable summary of
scattered modelisation
 => We need a generic document generator from multiple
model having different metamodel

6. How interoperate?
 MDWorkbench is an Eclipse-based IDE for model-driven
engineering to build:
 Text generators (any kind - document or code)
 Model transformers
Models
Models
Code
Word / OpenDocument
MDWorkbench Projects
Customizable rules and templates on
multiple metamodels

7. How interoperate?
 SODIUS interoperability approach is based on :
 Separated approach between the data (I/O) and the required transformation
○ Connectors to access Applications + Interoperability Rules
§ Metamodels to abstract data model (instead of syntax views)
No dependency to
§ Connectors to enable tools access in multiple, reusable ways context, can be used for
§ Rules/Templates for specific mapping other use cases (other
tools, other formats)
§ Human readable (textual formats, docs)
§ Machine readable (models, data)
Rules
Export
Capability to upgrade or add one
specific « plugin » Applicatio
n Rules
§
to handle metamodel changes Import
§
to handle framework changes
§
to handle format changes
§
to handle new applications or
MMs & Rules
APIs
Pivot
MDWorkbench Services are
100 % available through APIs
Fully Deployable Outside Eclipse

8. Connecting Applications
The MDWorkbench Catalog
RSA/RSM MEGA
MagicDraw
Rhapsody
Matlab Simulink
System Architect DoDAF/NAF/UPDM
SODIUS
Statemate PLM Windchill
UML / SYSML
Tau
PowerPoint
DOORS
Windchill
Not exhaustive / RTC Visio
Excel
Not close

9. New interoperability needs
 Connecting different tools, different processes need a
mechanism to aggregate data in an human readable format
 Use document generation to present:
 Summary of transformation
 Data aggregation from disconnect processes
 Specific point of view
 Standardized documents (e.g. DoDAF, MoDAF, NAF views)

10. New interoperability needs
 WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) template
 Use OpenOffice editor to define templates
 Some reserved expressions are directives
 Mechanism for expression resolution (such as model
instance query)

11. SODIUS OpenDocument generator
eatures
 WYSIWYG
 Support of style (Title, Title1…)
 Support of font (size, font, color, italic…)
 Support of table
 Generate iterative rows
 Generate conditionnal rows
 Conditionnal generation block
 Static / Dynamic text

12. MDWorkbench facilities
 Support of multiple metamodels
 Large list of ready to use metamodels and connectors (the
way we populate models)
 Open to any new / custom metamodel (input format: Ecore,
UML, XSchema)
 Graph navigation facilities through SODIUS MQL language
(Model Query Language)
 List manipulation (select / collect / detect / reject)
 Model exploration (model.getInstances(«Metatype»))
 Load / save model easily (metamodel.createModel();
model.read(…), model.write(…))
 Less test needed (some Exception are automaticly caught)

13. New language for graph
manipulation
Collection features = cls.getFeature();
Collection names = new ArrayList();
Iterator i = features.iterator();
while (i.hasNext()) {
Feature f = (Feature) features.next();
Java String name = f.getName();
if (name != null) {
names.add(name);
}
}
Primary goal: to
allow the user to focus
on the semantics of the
MQL model transformation
names = cls.features.name; instead of
programmatic details

14. solate complex expression in
scripts
 Scripts
 Extension of the metamodel (comparable to UML derived
attributes)
 Could be defined in
 MQL: use the graph manipulation facilities for queries
 Java: use Java power for all other treatments (e.g. String
manipulation)
 Scripts could also be used to reuse code
 Complex condition

15. Demonstration

16. ntegration in Eclipse
 Drag and drop facilities
 Drag ad drop directives from a dedicated
Eclipse view to OpenOffice (if, foreach…)
 Expression / directive contained in the template is evaluated in
MDWorkbench
 Error are reported in Eclipse Problem view

17. OpenDocument vs
WordML/OpenXML
 Open document is a more opened/supported standard
 Ensure perennity
 Tool independant
 Some free tools support OpenDocument (at least OpenOffice)
 Required for some administrations
 OpenOffice is supported by several platform
 Windows
 Mac OS
 Linux

18. Strength and weakness
 Multi metamodel supported in same template
 Support of image/diagram in template
 WYSIWYG template
 Integration in Eclipse (early error detection)
 But a little bit disconnected: no marker in OpenOffice
 Flat formatting template => only one line => error line 2
whatever the errors
 Drag and drop tool in Eclipse for the directives
 Difficult to use => tool outside of OpenOffice
 Large catalog of ready to use connectors for industrial tools

19. Future evolution
 Development of an OpenOffice toolbar for MDWorkbench
directive
 Easy to define with some tool (using macros for example)
 Demonstration
 Errors highlighting in OpenOffice editor

20. Thank you
Questions?
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