PlatformKit

PlatformKit is a platform modelling and platform dependency management toolkit. It can be used to support development processes based on the Model Driven Architecture and/or Software Product Lines. PlatformKit is a refactored version of the Context-Driven Development Toolkit.

PlatformKit makes its decisions based on platform ontologies. It uses a base vocabulary that explains what “platform” is. On top of that, platform dependency constraints of a particular software artifact can be defined. Finally, a concrete platform instance can be modelled. If all these are put together, PlatformKit can determine the platform dependency constraints that are satisfied by the given platform and which of the platform constraints is most-specific or least-specific.

Currently, there is an Eclipse-based interface and a web-based interface for PlatformKit. The source files can be found here.

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.) ]

• Dennis Wagelaar

• PlatformKit Eclipse Plugin
• PlatformKit Servlet

• Installing the PlatformKit Eclipse Plugin
• Setting up a Model-Driven Software Product Line
• Extracting Platform Dependencies of Third-party Components
• Modelling Platform Dependencies
• Setting up a Platform-Aware Configuration Language
• Platform-Driven Configuration
• Platform-Driven Deployment
• Setting up a PlatformKit Deployment Servlet

• Wagelaar, D., Jonckers, V., Explicit Platform Models for MDA, paper presentation for the MoDELS 2005 conference, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2-7 October 2005. [ OpenOffice ] [ Adobe PDF ]

• Wagelaar, D. and Jonckers, V. Explicit Platform Models for MDA. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 8th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS 2005), Montego Bay, Jamaica, October 2005 - LNCS 3713, November 2005, pp. 367-381. (C) Springer-Verlag. ISBN/ISSN: 0302-9743 [ download paper ]

• Wagelaar, D. Context-Driven Model Refinement. Proceedings of the MDAFA 2004 workshop, Linköping, Sweden, June 2004 - LNCS 3599, August 2005, pp. 189-203. (C) Springer-Verlag. ISBN/ISSN: 0302-9743 [ download paper ]

• Model-Driven Case Studies
• Platform Ontologies
• PlatformKit bugzilla