Summer Project Marama2008 By Robert and Johnson What is Marama? Marama is an Eclipses based toolset permits rapid specification of notational elements, meta-models, view editors and view-model mappings. A tool generates other tools Eclipses Plug-in (JAVA) Usage: construct basic visual modellers fast more accessible approach to domain specific visual language specification than other meta-tools A Class Diagram Tool How is Marama working Modelling Steps: Meta-Model-designerShapeType Designer View Mapping Designer View Type View mapping Generate End Tool Diagrams Is used for Entity.xml Association.xml Shape.xml Connector.xml Any Diagrams! Marama could generate any diagram you want to have, in a few hours, amazingly! Proof? Download: https://wiki.auckland.ac.nz/display/csidst/Downloads https://wiki.auckland.ac.nz/display/csidst/Downloads Project Objective Part 1: Extend existing example tools that were available for Marama. Part 2: enhancing meta-tool capabilities by introducing new visual notations and user interactions. Main Work Programming Debugging Designing Testing Documentations Challenges Training on Marama Both of us have limited experience in Java No UML diagrams to analysis Eclipses Libraries Uncommented code Bugs pre-existing Our own creation Part1: Improving existing tools Marama Sudden Used for Supply Chain Management Tool Marama FB Function Block Designer Tool Both tools are developed by other research students. Both with a few bugs. Some of the features were not working. Outcomes Fixed lots of Layout bugs Added some event handlers to improve the interaction These tools are much better than before Training on Marama and Eclipse IDE Transformation to new version of Marama New features on Meta-tool We introduced some new features in the newest version of Marama Association creation process Mapping creation process One step view mapping Naming shape in shape definer Setting defaults API for duplicate shape Button shape in shapes Default settings Give shapes unique key names when created Make sure 2 shapes dont share a same key value Implemented by adding a new event handler to the Diagram Unit Test Button Shape in the shapes Create a button in the Shape Definer A property value Link to an event handler Each time the button is pressed, run the event handler Some new API added to constrain the event handler