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application in the following ways: (1) labelling
of the application model entities with roles
defined in the domain model; and (2) validating
the relationships among the application model
elements (entities and links) according to the
thing roles and link constraints defined in the
domain model.
3. The models incompatibility problem: both the
domain and the application OPM models use
the same notations and semantics, so no mental
model transformation is needed.
Moving forward from domain analysis, domain
design in OPM is similar to domain analysis, as it
employs the same terminology while deepening the
level of details and shifting the focus from the
problem domain to the solution domain. The
transformation to domain implementation can be
done using the Generic Code Generator (GCG)
(Reinhartz-Berger and Dori, 2004) associated with
OPCAT (Dori et al, 2003). Utilizing the GCG and
roles within a domain can be a basis for developing
infrastructure components and using them to
generate application code.
The implementation of the ADOM-OPM
analysis approach is currently being integrated into
OPCAT. We plan to add negation constraints as well
as extending the application model so that it can be
based on more than one domain model. We also
intend to experimentally compare the ADOM-OPM
approach with ADOM-UML approach.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors wish to thank Dr. Iris Reinhartz-Berger
for her insightful remarks and comments and for her
help in designing the experiment.
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