• By Raymond Hertz
• Published 05/4/2010
• Article Writing

Building Spring Enterprise applications is now easier and faster than ever. With M2Spring™, experience the perfect combination of best of breed Model Driven technologies, MagicDraw™ UML and BLU AGE Agile Model Transformation, and dramatically enhance your productivity by easily modeling and automatically generating 100% of your Spring SOA applications, with advanced teamwork features. M2Spring is offering an integrated environment for UML models’ elaboration, execution and automated transformation into Spring 2.5 applications (Struts / Spring / Hibernate).

Key Features of M2Spring:

UML Modeling

• Promotes quick learning with intuitive interface
• Creates diagrams faster than any tool on the market
• Visualizes your model in a few quick steps
• Keeps your team in the express lane by enabling them to work on the same model in parallel ²
• Eliminates tedious document preparation with automatic report generation!
• Extends UML capabilities beyond UML 2 – in a snap
• Enables speedy navigation through your models

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Generate turn key application

• Service layer: Business Rules, application services and web services,
• Presentation layer: User interface, user roles and security policies,
• Persistence layer: Business Objects, DAO implementation, DAO finder.
• Application is packaged and ready for deployment and execution.

Advanced MDA

• Transformation of user friendly models into Spring Web apps,
• Template driven transformations,
• Support UML Profiles definition to customize requirements
• Agile methodology: add features to your business application through iterations.

Database modeling

• Model database tables, columns, keys, foreign keys and other complex relationships using Embedded UML modeler and the inbuilt data modeling Profile,
• Generate DDL scripts to create target database structures for leading RDBMS,
• Model mapping from existing databases to business objects.

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Key Benefits

• Increase dramatically your productivity
• Reduce your project time to market by 50%
• Model and automatically generate 100% agile SOA applications.

Supported Technologies UML 2.2, OCL 2.0, XMI 2.1, EMF UML2 2.x XMI, MDA/MDD, M2M, M2T, ATL, JET, STRUTS, SPRING 2, HIBERNATE, JSP, Webservice, SOA, Java, JDBC (Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2000/2005, My SQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 UDB), IBM WAS 6.x, Weblogic 9.x/10.x, JBOSS 4.x, Tomcat 5.x Notes

• M2Spring requires MagicDraw Standard or higher edition.
• Requires MagicDraw TeamWork Server

About the Author: Other improved features in 16.6 SP1  include faster execution and faster import/export from Excel, better support for recursive structures  and strings, and more formatting control for results display.

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