MDA-based network management information model transformation from UML to Web Services

Abstract

The definition of network management interface is generally divided into three phases, requirements, analysis and design. In analysis phase, UML is used as the modeling language to present technology independent models, and these models can be mapped into multiple technology specific models. With the development of Web Services applied in network management domain, it is required to define Web Services-based information models in design phase. This paper applied MDA approach to realize models transformation. As the main work, this paper proposed detailed mapping rules describing how to map the existing source UML models into the target Web Services-based models. An automatic transformation approach using XSLT was proposed to implement the mapping rules, and experiments were made for verification. The proposed mapping rules improved the defects in related work. Furthermore, the work of this paper could help resolve some issues in current models transformation work which is still being accomplished manually by standard developers.