IST STREP Project Deliverable D2.2 Graphical design language and tools for resource-aware adaptable components and services

This document is the second deliverable produced within WP2 in the PLASTIC project. This deliverable describes the PLASTIC UML2 profile that concerns the starting point of the whole PLASTIC development process (described in PLASTIC Deliverable D2.1 – http://wwwc.inria.fr/plastic/deliverables/plastic-d2_1-finalpdf.pdf/download). It is a concrete implementation of the PLASTIC conceptual model (described in PLASTIC Deliverable D1.2 http://wwwc.inria.fr/plastic/deliverables/plastic-d1_2-finalpdf.pdf/download), which defines the modeling constructs that are used to build a PLASTIC service model. The reference modeling environment in which the profile is implemented is MagicDraw (http://www.magicdraw.com/). The PLASTIC UML2 profile allows the designer to build service models conforming the PLASTIC domain, i.e., context-aware and adaptable services over B3G networks. A service model is organized according to five views that reflect different aspects of the PLASTIC service's behavior. Each view is defined by a suitable set of profiled UML2 diagrams. The profile is not only for model specification but it allows the designer to suitably annotate each diagram to support, in the next phases of the development process, model-to-model transformation in order to perform performance and reliability analysis, and model-to-code transformation in order to deal with service mobility and contextawareness. The description of the PLASTIC UML2 profile is done by means of a case study concerning the modeling of an eHealth application. Finally, an installation guide of the PLASTIC UML2 profile within MagicDraw is provided. Additionally, an Eclipse plug-in used to define SLAs and to generate SLA monitors is briefly described.