Umple as a Component-based Language for the Development of Real-time and Embedded Applications

Mahmoud Husseini Orabi, Ahmed Husseini Orabi, Timothy Lethbridge

2016

Abstract

Component-based development enforces separation of concern to improve reusability and maintainability. In this paper, we show how we extended Umple (http://try.umple.org) to support component-based development. The development of components, ports, and connectors is enabled using easy-to-comprehend keywords. Development is supported in both textual and visual representations. The design pattern followed in our implementation is the active object pattern. We show a comparison between Umple and other modelling tools. We show that Umple has a set of component features comparable to commercial modelling tools, but is the most complete, particularly with regard to code generation, among the open source tools.

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Orabi M., Orabi A. and Lethbridge T. (2016). Umple as a Component-based Language for the Development of Real-time and Embedded Applications . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-168-7, pages 282-291. DOI: 10.5220/0005741502820291


in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward16,
author={Mahmoud Husseini Orabi and Ahmed Husseini Orabi and Timothy Lethbridge},
title={Umple as a Component-based Language for the Development of Real-time and Embedded Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2016},
pages={282-291},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005741502820291},
isbn={978-989-758-168-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Umple as a Component-based Language for the Development of Real-time and Embedded Applications
SN - 978-989-758-168-7
AU - Orabi M.
AU - Orabi A.
AU - Lethbridge T.
PY - 2016
SP - 282
EP - 291
DO - 10.5220/0005741502820291