Appling MDA approach to solve the interoperability problem in modelio and argouml tools

Abstract

The modeling of computer systems is applied by the approach called MDA (Model Driven Architecture) which recommends presenting the computer system in the form of models; these are described by UML modeling software. These models are serialized by another standard published by the OMG called XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) which is recommended to ensure interoperability between UML modeling tools. However, the independent evolutions of these standards; namely UML and XMI; have caused interoperability problems between UML modeling softwares. In the article "Solving the Interoperability Problem between UML Modeling Tools: Modelio and ArgoUML", we solved the problem of interoperability at the level of the XMI files of class diagrams of UML language and mainly between Modelio and ArgoUML using the transformation by XSLT template. This paper presents, on the one hand, a hybrid transformation approach via ATL to transform XMI files to solve the interoperability problem and, on the other hand, a comparison of this solution to the previous transformation by XSLT models.