Business Rules Separation and Reuse Using MDA, OWL and AspectJ

Abstract— Two important challenges for MDA designers are to make business rules independent of the specific platform model and to ensure the resulting implementation does not violate the specified properties in the application domain. In this paper we present an approach that allows developers to both describe and corroborate domain properties at run time. In our approach, an ontology specifies domain properties and translates it to aspect-oriented code. The implementation code could be automatically merged. As a result, we will be able to perform approval tests at runtime and to create business rules reused in other MDA specific models. This novel approach shall be evaluates in a toolkit for reengineering an industrial furnace management application.

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Uma Nova Abordagem para Validação de Regras de Negócio Através de Transformação e Composição de Modelos MDA

Abstract. Two important challenges for MDA designers are to make business rules independent of the platform specific model and to ensure that the resulting implementation does not violate the properties within these business rules. In this paper we present an approach that allows developers to both describe and verify domain properties at run time. In our approach, an ontology specifies domain properties that are translated to aspect-oriented code. This code is automatically merged in the implementation. As a result, we are able to execute validation tests at runtime and to generate business rules that can be reused in other MDA specific models. We evaluated our approach and toolkit by successfully reengineering an industrial furnace management application.

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