Module Developer Guide Index

About this guide

What is a Module?

Module or Macro?

• What is a macro ?

• Comparison between macro and module

Modelio project concepts

Module concepts

• Identifier

• Module

• Profiles

• UML extensions

• Module commands

• GUI features

• Model management

  • Model navigation

  • Transactions

  • Model events

• Runtime Phases

• Peers services

Module project development structure

• Maven development structure

Sample module design (Example of Junit module)

Module development tutorial

• Setting up the Development Environment

• Creating the module – basics

  • Module declaration

  • Module Java classes

  • Creating a module profile

  • Creating module stereotypes

    • Stereotypes declaration

    • Adding icons to a stereotype

  • Creating module commands

    • Command declaration

    • Command Java class

    • Writing command method

  • Processing commands: model transformation

    • Step 1: Checking for an already existing test case

    • Step 2: Creating/updating the test model hierarchy

    • Step 3: Creating the test model class

    • Step 4: Adding the [JUnit] stereotype to the test model class

    • Step 5: Establishing the [JUnit] dependency link

    • Step 6: Adding the test class features

  • Catching modeling events

    • A bit of theory: module model events

    • Event handling or listening

    • Implementation example

  • Creating a module property page

    • Property page declaration

    • Commands associated with the property page

    • Coding the property page behavior

  • Creating a customized diagram

• Packaging the module

• Updating the version

Debugging the module with Eclipse

• Creating the JRE configuration

• Creating the target configuration

• Creating the debug configuration

• Launching Modelio under Eclipse debugger