Introducing the Eclipse Process Framework

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Peter Haumer
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EPF Project Committer

© 2006; made available under the EPL v1.0

What Development Teams Are Facing Today
Project plan Article on serialized Website with
templates java beans Configuration mgmt
guidelines
Book on J2EE
Lessons learnt from
JUnit user guide previous project and iteration

Wiki on agile Latest research on

development effectiveness of pair programming

Knowledge base on Corporate guidelines

managing iterative development on compliance

ƒ No common language or terminology between processes - redundancy and inconsistencies

ƒ Knowledge cannot easily be customized for different projects or new best practices
ƒ No central community or communication framework to facilitate convergence of best
practices across domains

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A better approach
Standardize representation and
manage libraries Develop and manage processes
of reusable method content for performing projects

Content on agile JUnit user Lessons learnt from

Process assets
development guidance previous project and
patterns
iteration
Content on Content Standard or
managing on J2EE reference processes
iterative development
Corporate
Configuration guidelines Project plan
Guidance on
mgmt on compliance templates
serialized java beans
guidelines

Cohesive Web site customized for my project needs

Project plan templates and optional process instrumentation, relevant for the
context of my project

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Eclipse Process Framework Project Goals

ƒ Provide an extensible framework and exemplary tools and content

for software process engineering
ƒ Extensible Framework
ƒ Meta-model based on OMG SPEM
ƒ Core extensible process tooling framework
ƒ Exemplary and extensible tools
ƒ Method and Process authoring
ƒ Library management and content extensibility
ƒ Configuring and publishing
ƒ Exemplary and extensible process content
ƒ Range of software development and management processes
supporting
ƒ iterative, agile, and incremental development
ƒ applicable to a broad set of development platforms and applications

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Value to the industry
ƒ Converge industry process investments through a common process
framework

ƒ Broadly endorsable and will bring diverse process champions together

ƒ A foundation for the industry to engineer, communicate and reuse process

assets

ƒ Tools, metamodel and core content for seeding an ecosystem

ƒ More reuse, more industry reach, more process/tool integration

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 Manage textual IC and
reusable method content.

EPF Composer

IC / Best Practices

Books / Publications

Standards / Regulations

Homegrown Methods

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 Easy to use, form-based
rich-text editing capabilities.

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 Assemble processes by with reusable
method content and process patterns.
Consistent management of WBS and
Activity diagrams.

Workflow

Workflow

Breakdown / Iterations /
Increments / Sprints / Waterfall

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 BUP applying
four RUP phases
lifecycle model

BUP specific
management
approach

Scrum-like
process with a
lifecycle model
using Sprints

Scrum specific
management
approach

Capability
Pattern reused
from BUP
method plug-in

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Eclipse Process Framework Conceptual Architecture
Commercial
EXTENSIONS Process
Key: • Project Mgmt. Content
Proposed IBM Contribution • Oper. Mgmt. Plug-ins

Proposed Object Mentor

• Systems Mgmt.
User-defined
Content
EPL Process Plug-ins
Content
Plug-ins
Basic Unified
Agile/XP
Process
Adapted from RUP

Tool
Extensions
Extensible, Customizable, Flexible TOOLING (Authoring, Publishing)

Common Language & Vocabulary META MODEL IMPL. (Unified Method Architecture)

Open Source Development ECLIPSE

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Beacon/RMC Runtime Architecture
Presentation Authoring UI Browsing UI
Layer

Library Publishing
UMA Edit
Service Service

Business
Layer

Library
UMA Model
Persistence

Infrastructure EMF
UMA Ecore
Layer Extension

Data
Layer
Method
Library Repository

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High-Level Architecture
Authoring Browsing Publishing Export Import

Diagramming Library Management Application Workbench

Rich Text UMA Service Search Common

JTidy EMF GEF

WST Common
Lucene Eclipse RCP Runtime
Properties UI

Java Runtime

EPF tool components

Eclipse components
Other open source components
Sun/IBM JRE

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Technology Stack

ƒ Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) 3.1

ƒ Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) 2.1
ƒ XML Meta Interchange (XMI) 2.0
ƒ Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) 1.0
ƒ XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) 1.0
ƒ UML 2.0 Diagram Interchange Specification
ƒ Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) 3.1
ƒ Java2D
ƒ Eclipse Forms
ƒ DHTML (HTML, JavaScript, DOM & CSS)
ƒ W3C JTidy
ƒ Apache Lucene
ƒ Java Applet

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Industry Support

ƒ IBM ƒ Object Mentor

ƒ 2-Pro Mentor ƒ SOFTEAM
ƒ Adaptive ƒ University of British Columbia
ƒ Ambysoft ƒ aubryConseil
ƒ Armstrong Process Group ƒ European Software Institute
ƒ BearingPoint ƒ Jaczone
ƒ Bedarra Research Labs ƒ NTT Comware
ƒ Object Management Group
ƒ Capgemini (OMG)
ƒ Catalysts ƒ Osellus
ƒ Covansys ƒ Sogeti
ƒ Ivar Jacobson ƒ Telelogic
International ƒ Unisys
ƒ Number Six Software ƒ Wind River

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EPF Project Structure

Technology

… EPF …

Project Lead

Subsystems

UP Agile Tool/Meta-Model

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 EPF Project Timeline

• Announcement (Oct 12) • Creation Review EPF v1.5 (Q207)

• Proposal posted on (Dec 21)
Eclipse Web site (Oct 25)

2005 2006 2007

EPF v1.0 (2H06)

• Project creation (Jan)
• Updated based on community
• Contribution of
feedback
•parts of RMC tooling
• Basic Unified Process
•~15% of RUP content
• XP / Scrum process
• Initiation of open source project
• Eclipse 3.2
• Committers face-to-face meeting
• APIs
• SPEM 2.0

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