Towards executable models: Transforming EDOC behavior models to CORBA and BPEL

At the last EDOC conference we presented our open modelling infrastructure "medini" which is based on MOF compliant meta-tools. Based on medini, we have developed a modelling suite for telecom services which consists of EDOC as a platform independent modelling technique and CORBA/Corba Component Model (CCM) as a platform specific modelling technique. Since that time, this modelling suite has been significantly enhanced: Support for Web Services has been added as an alternative target platform and we have extended the model transformers to consider EDOC behavior models (namely choreographies). The behavior descriptions can now be transformed to Web Service behavior expressed using BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and to behavior descriptions for our CORBA/CCM based platform facilitating UML 2 state-machines and the creation of Java code. In this paper we will explain our behavior transformations and report on the experiences we have made by simultaneously addre ssing two different target platforms with different kinds of behavior descriptions.