[Webofpatterns-user] WOP Project News

[Jens D. <J.B...@ma...>]

Dear all,

I am sending this email to everybody who is interested in our web of
pattern project. In a nutshell, WOP is a formal representation of
software design using semantic web technology and a tool that scans java
software for design pattern instances based on this representation. 

Summary

1 New WOP Mailing List
2 New versions of the ontology and the wop tool suite released
3 Roadmap
4 Publications


1 WOP Mailing List created


In the future, all wop project related news will be broadcasted using
the new WOP users mailing list. So, if you are interested, please join
the source forge mailing list. The URL is
 <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webofpatterns-user>
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webofpatterns-user.


2 New versions of the ontology and the wop tool suite released


We have released new versions of the ontology, the pattern scanner and
the standalone wop application. The links have been updated on the web
page. Here are the most important changes:

*	An extended vocabulary. In particular, support for associations
has been added.
*	Directed constraints.
*	An improved constraint scheduler based on the JGraphT library.
*	Now 7 patterns are supported.
*	Improved reporting using XML/XSL.
*	Client logs memory, and starts with customized initial memory.
*	New platform independent distribution (there were problems with
the installers built for Unix).
*	The standalone application contains examples based on the
"Patterns In Java" book, Mandarax, AWT/Swing and JDBC/MySQL ConnectorJ.
*	Pattern instance aggregators (in wop, not yet supported by the
user interface/reporting tool).

The software can be accessed from the source forge download page or
directly from the cvs server. See the download section on the project
web page for details. For direct access to the ontology resources, click
on the links on the web page. 
 
For the practising software engineers among you - please download the
client and give it a go!
 
3 Roadmap
 
 
Until 10 February

*	Support for more patterns
*	Support for pattern refinement.
*	Support for pattern instance aggregation.

Until the end of 2005
 
We will have 2-3 more people working on the project, and hope to add the
following features: 
 

*	Dynamic code analysis.
*	Full integration into Eclipse (as plug-in).
*	Looking into how to generalize some of the results to include
anti-patterns and refactoring.
*	Adding patterns for AOP / an AOP ontology ("A" means aspect, not
agent here!). 

4 Publications
 
Chris and myself have written a paper on WOP that got accepted for the
Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC2005). 
 
 
Kind regards, Jens


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Dr Jens Dietrich
Senior Lecturer Computer Science
Institute of Information Sciences & Technology
Te Kura Putaiao o Hangarau-a-Mohiotanga
Massey University
Palmerston North
New Zealand
Phone: +64 6 350 5799 ext 2212
Email: J.B...@ma...
Web: http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/JBDietrich/

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