The UML-compliant action language VIDE is to be
researched, developed, evaluated and disseminated during the project. It will
enable fully visual prototyping, programming, debugging and documenting of
future applications. With VIDE, the application logic will be specified within
UML (Executable-UML approach) eliminating the semantic gaps between UML and
3GL/4GL languages, making the applications fully platform-independent and hence
surpassing most current approaches to OMG’s MDA
both in research and industry. VIDE follows the path of model-driven
programming increasingly making 3GL/4GL code a read-only artifact and raising
the level of abstraction (similarly to what 3GL languages once did to assembly
languages). In contrast to today’s focus of MDA development on real-time
systems, VIDE will be developed primarily with data-intense business
applications in mind. However, the majority of its constructs are domain
neutral.
The VIDE approach will provide a fully visual
toolset to be used both by IT-specialists and individuals with little or no
IT-experience, such as specific domain experts, users and testers. This will
support their common efforts in the faster development of more reliable systems
of the future. The innovative user-friendly code editor of VIDE enabling both
visual and textual coding of PIMs will increase the
reliability of systems by limiting the number of possible bugs already at the
coding stage. As a part of the VIDE project the OCL 2.0 standard is implemented
as a query language addressing object-oriented databases.
The VIDE project will research the areas of
visual user interfaces, executable model programming, action- and
query-language-semantics, AOP and quality assurance on the platform-independent
level, service oriented architecture (especially Web services and integration)
and business process modelling. Finally, a
functionally complete prototype of the VIDE system will be implemented,
validated and evaluated. The project will be open source with the exception of
the adaptation of commercial solutions of (mostly SME) consortium members.
VIDE lasts from July 1, 2006 till December 31,
2008.
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Polish-Japanese Institute of
Information Technology, Project Coordinator |
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SAP AG |
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SOFTEAM |
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IESE Fraunhofer |
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FIRST Fraunhofer |
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Institute for Information Systems
at the |
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TNM Software GmbH |
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Rodan Systems S.A. |
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ALTEC |
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