ReMoDD Eclipse Plug-in: Collaborative Modeling Using a Model Repository

The Repository for Model-Driven Development (REMODD) is a community resource developed to support the research and education activities of researchers and educators in the Model-Driven Development (MDD) community. Researchers and practitioners can use the repository as a vehicle for sharing exemplar models, illustrative descriptions of modeling methodologies and techniques, detailed modeling case studies, modeling success stories, and other forms of modeling experience and knowledge. Recent extensions to REMODD support the seamless integration of REMODD into existing modeling frameworks, thereby improving the access to REMODD artifacts. In particular, we have developed an Application Programming Interface (API) to enable other repositories and existing modeling tools to directly access REMODD search, browsing, and retrieval facilities. We validate and demonstrate the API utility through an Eclipse plugin that allows a user to collaboratively work on modeling artifacts that are available in REMODD.