http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/3472 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:05:04 GMT 2026-07-23T06:05:04Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/3476 What is Needed in a MetaCASE Environment? Kelly, Steven; Rossi, Matti; Tolvanen, Juha-Pekka In this paper we look at ways of effectively implementing software development environments through metaCASE tools. MetaCASE tools offer fast and economical means of supporting tailored or homegrown systems development methods, yet they have not been taken into use widely due to their perceived complexity and the lack of development process maturity in most organisations. We offer a list of generic requirements for these tools and demonstrate their use through evaluating the MetaEdit+ tool against these requirements. The requirements are gathered from existing literature on method engineering. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/3476 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/3478 Model-driven Development of Web Service Transactions Schmit, Benjamin A.; Dustdar, Schahram Composite Web service design using model-driven approaches has been in use for several years now, but the modelling of transactional properties is still uncommon and has not yet been subject to much research. For a distributed system of autonomous components like Web services, especially when they are used for implementing business processes, transactional guarantees can be of vital importance. In this paper, we propose a model-driven approach which introduces a separate design layer dedicated to transactions. We show that our systematic modelling approach is able to introduce transactions in the design without increasing the complexity of the basic UML diagram. Our approach can also be reused to specify other properties of Web services such as security requirements or workflows in additional layers. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/3478 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/3477 Collaborative Modelling and Metamodelling with the Enterprise Knowledge Architecture Lillehagen, Frank; Karlsen, Dag This paper presents the Modelling Platform for Collaborative Enterprises (MPCE) currently being developed in the ATHENA project. The platform enables interoperability between enterprises by providing an environment where most aspects of the collaboration can be negotiated and described as enterprise models and metamodels. It also facilitates business interaction by executing the models. We here introduce the metamodelling framework of the MPCE, known as the Enterprise Knowledge Architecture (EKA). The EKA can represent models on any metalevel in a uniform way. It departs from the conventional ordered meta-levels of software engineering. Instead it treats models as a constellation of mutually reflective, partial views, e.g. different views from different companies. Currently five tools are exchanging models through this framework, and we plan to submit it for standardization. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/3477 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/3479 Conference Reports Frank, Ulrich; Mendling, Jan; Nüttgens, Markus Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/3479 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z