I was cleaning up my ${HOME} folder today and found a set of demos I
prepared two years ago.
I did this for a modeling course given at Polytech' . The course
was about Model Driven Engineering, toward the end the student have to build a domain specific model for textual
adventure games and then generate the corresponding Java app. Some students tend to go very far on this exercice
buidling a fairly complex DSL.
The following demos are here to given an idea to the student of what can be done in a few minutes : a simple Ecore
model
And then a graphical modeler :
And then we build Acceleo generator templates to directly map a game instance into its running Java code. It's a very interesting exercise, students are staying focused because it's about game, and at the same time it's a great example of the power of specific modeling. You don't design a game with an UML diagram, but building your own langage and using it you're quickly getting results and can evaluate many designs.
Building the complete tooling is a matter of minutes, not hours, here are the live demos :
Designing the Domain Model : vidéo
Specifying while running the Graphical Designer : part1 and part2
And then we build Acceleo generator templates to directly map a game instance into its running Java code. It's a very interesting exercise, students are staying focused because it's about game, and at the same time it's a great example of the power of specific modeling. You don't design a game with an UML diagram, but building your own langage and using it you're quickly getting results and can evaluate many designs.
Building the complete tooling is a matter of minutes, not hours, here are the live demos :
Designing the Domain Model : vidéo
Specifying while running the Graphical Designer : part1 and part2
As a sidenote, these flash demos are based on a pretty old version of Obeo Designer, if you're interested, have
a look on the latest versions which are even better !