tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1738355692932260242011-04-21T20:44:12.297+02:00StUIML (Standard User Interface Modeling Language) is a DSL for UI's.Jim van Damhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781516128107996152noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173835569293226024.post-58210249980056374092009-03-28T18:38:00.002+01:002009-03-28T19:18:50.408+01:00

Sitting at Cleveland Airport right now after a very interesting week in the US. First there was EclipseCon2009 with a lot of good presentations, tutorials and interesting people to meet. I learned about the latest developments and ideas around Eclipse and the modelling community which is very valuable for our Software Factory solutions.My PMF presentation went well I think considering the number

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Every once in a while you hear a song and either through the music or the lyrics alone, it touches you deeply. For me, someone who touched me a lot with his music is Van Morrison. "Cleaning windows" was the first time, as I recognized myself as a "working man in his pride", but there are numerous songs by Van the Man that hit home.During a tough period in my life Elvis Costello's "I want you"

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It's only a few weeks to EclipseCon2009 and the excitement is growing. In the last couple of months several organizations approached us to take part in PMF or at least express their interest. It assured me that the project fills a void in the Eclipse project set, but it also created a sense of responsibility. We have to do this right and serve the community well in the spirit of the Eclipse

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The interest in UI modeling has grown during the last year, resulting in a quite impressive group of interested parties and participants for our Presentation Modeling Framework project at Eclipse. During ESE and afterwards we had a lot of discussion about modeling UI's at different abstraction levels. PMF aims to cover the whole spectrum hopefully creating a vibrant ecosystem of models and

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Sorry for the long silence. After EclipseCon2008 which was great and generated a lot of attention for UI Modelling I planned to write the next blog about the publicly available metamodel.Due to IP issues and working hard on a large Client project using StUIML, I have not been able to do just that.It will happen though! Just a few more weeks now...To keep you in the loop and talk about all the

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Anyone of my generation reading this title associates it with Tom Selleck. The PI that is a friend of Rick and T.C. stands for Private Investigator, but the PI in PIM I would like to blog about stands for Platform Independent.MDA describes a transformation of models from PIM (or even CIM) to PSM to code. As StUIML is a PIM level UI Modelling language it should be platform independent. This is not

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So what is that StUIML metamodel all about?There are two main root metamodel elements in StUIML:DialogueProcessA dialogue according to Merriam-Webster's dictionary is "a conversation between two or more persons or a similar exchange between a person and something else (as a computer)"In StUIML a Dialogue defines how information is gathered from a person or presented to a person by an application.

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As my full articles are not ready yet (working around the clock on a Software Factories project for a large dutch Insurance Company), I thought it would be a good idea to reveal the basic principles that StUIML is based on:The UI model should never pose requirements for the domain modelReuse at the model level is key, so each UI model component should follow the 'strong cohesion, loose coupling'

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The upcoming EclipseCon2008 will show two StUIML related talks: Intentional UI Modeling talks about the background and features of StUIML and the role of WYSIWYG in combination with DSL and code generation. The examples used are based on combining StUIML with UML domain models and generation of Java Swing. Model-driven web applications talks about the use of StUIML in combination with Ecore and

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