Globalization has set a strong mark on the way education can be provided. Every knowledge institution provider has to publish and offer his expertise for a wider readership in order to stay on top. One of the prime-time opportunities is to build web-based software solutions in order to support distance learning. There are so many ways to organize your class and professors can imagine so many ways to evaluate students that the complexity of such a software system can be hard to implement and it can hardly foresee future education forms. This is one of the main concerns of the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles which did not cure important issues faced by software companies these days on developing complex software for reuse and protecting the more and more evolving applications against technological obsolescence. The Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) project from OMG promotes the use of meta-modeling in order to drive the system’s design and implementation. In this context the paper presents: - an approach: it reviews the SmartModels approach briefly introducing its principles, basic entities and main elements when defining a business-model; - a prototype: SmartFactory which is based on Eclipse platform and its role is to validate the new approach. It addresses the paradigm of how to practically implement MDA principles and rules for software engineering. Therefore, it deals with important implementation issues based on Eclipse Platform. The examples in this paper target the process of developing e-learning deployment tools.
@InProceedings{Tundrea2006NETTIES,
author = {Emanuel Tundrea and Philippe Lahire and Dan Pescaru and Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila},
title = {SmartModels - A Framework For Generating On-Line Learning Software Solutions},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference Netties 2006},
address = {Timisoara, Romania,},
month = {September},
year = {2006},
}
[Tundrea2006NETTIES] - Emanuel Tundrea, Philippe Lahire, Dan Pescaru, Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila. SmartModels - A Framework For Generating On-Line Learning Software Solutions, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference Netties 2006, pp. 69-75, ISBN (10): 973-638-262-1, ISBN (13): 978-973-638-262-8, Orizonturi Universitare Publishing House, Timisoara, Romania, September 6-9, 2006
[Tundrea2006NETTIES] - Emanuel Tundrea, Philippe Lahire, Dan Pescaru, Ciprian-Bogdan Chirila. SmartModels - A Framework For Generating On-Line Learning Software Solutions, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference Netties 2006, pp. 69-75, ISBN (10): 973-638-262-1, ISBN (13): 978-973-638-262-8, Orizonturi Universitare Publishing House, Timisoara, Romania, September 6-9, 2006