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About this guide¶

What is a Module?¶

Module or Macro ?¶

• What is a macro ?
• Comparison between macro and module

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
• Ant development structure
• Migration of an Ant development structure to Maven development structure

Sample module design¶

Module development tutorial¶

• Setting up the Development Environment
  • Maven Project
  • Ant Project
    • Setting up the location of Module Development Kit (modelio.path)
    • Creating the Eclipse project from Ant build file
• 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
• Packaging the module
  • Packaging the module with Maven
  • Packaging the module with Ant
• 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