 | PlatformKit 1.2.1 is out. The performance of the compatibility report algorithm has been improved. Read all about it in the release notes. |
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PlatformKit
PlatformKit is a platform dependency management toolkit. It can be used to support platform-specific configuration in development processes based on the Model Driven Architecture and/or Software Product Lines, where multiple (versions of) software and/or hardware platforms are targeted.
PlatformKit makes its decisions based on platform ontologies. It uses a base vocabulary that explains what a “platform” is. On top of that, platform dependency constraints of a particular software artifact can be defined. Finally, several platform instances can be modelled. If all these are put together, PlatformKit can determine which platform dependency constraints are satisfied by the given platform, and which of the platform dependency constraints is most-specific or least-specific.
PlatformKit uses Jar2UML to measure platform dependencies of existing Java software. It can then compare these dependencies against a number of supported Java libraries, such as JRE class libraries and several versions of the SWT library.
The following is an introductory presentation:
- Wagelaar, D. Presentation public PhD defence, Brussels, Belgium, April 2008. [ OpenOffice ] [ Adobe PDF ] [ Google Docs ]
If you want to get started straight away with the PlatformKit tool, skip right to the Tasks section and work through them one by one.
News
| | PlatformKit 1.2.0 is out It has been updated to use the Pellet 2.0.1 reasoner, which supports OWL 2.0. It also provides improved support for determining Java platform compatibility. Read all about it in the release notes. |
| | PlatformKit 1.1.11 is out! It has been updated to Eclipse 3.5 and uses the new ATL 3.1.0 (pre-release) with additional bugfixes. Read all about it in the release notes. |
Tasks
Components
Contact
Case study
The instant messenger case study uses PlatformKit. There's no up-to-date documentation on this, but the research principle can still be learned from the following flash presentation/demo that illustrates the use of PlatformKit's predecessor Context-Driven Development Toolkit for the UML 1.4 version of this case study:
- Wagelaar, D., MDE Case Study: Using Model Transformations for UML ands DSLs, presentation/demo for JUGS, Zürich, Switzerland, 30 March 2006.
[ OpenOffice ] [ Adobe PDF ] [ Flash demo (49 min.) ]
Literature
- [2008, phdthesis | wagelaarphdthesis.pdf | www]
- D. Wagelaar, "Platform Ontologies for the Model-Driven Architecture," PhD Thesis , Brussels, Belgium, 2008.
- [2007, article | wagelaarvanderstraetenejis2006.pdf | www]
- D. Wagelaar and R. Van Der Straeten, "Platform Ontologies for the Model-Driven Architecture," European Journal of Information Systems, © Palgrave-Macmillan, vol. 16, iss. 4, pp. 362-373, 2007.
- [2005, inproceedings | wagelaarmodels2005.pdf | www]
- D. Wagelaar and V. Jonckers, "Explicit Platform Models for {MDA}," in Proc. ACM/IEEE 8th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS 2005), Montego Bay, Jamaica, © Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 367-381.
- [2005, inproceedings | wagelaarmdafa2004-2.pdf | www]
- D. Wagelaar, "Context-Driven Model Refinement," in Proc. Model Driven Architecture: European MDA Workshops: Foundations and Applications, MDAFA 2003 and MDAFA 2004, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 2003 and Linköping, Sweden, June 2004. Revised Selected Papers, © Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 189-203.