Object-Oriented Metamethods

I Background to the Project.- 1 The Methodology “Explosion”.- 2 What Does Industry Require?.- 2.1 Choosing a methodology.- 3 Standardized Methodologies?.- 3.1 Standardization or interoperability?.- 3.2 Metamodelling.- 3.3 COMMA — the proposal.- II Project Description and Results.- 4 Description of the COMMA Project.- 4.1 The timeline and goals.- 4.2 Selected methodologies — a brief synoptic description.- 4.3 The metamodelling notation and semantics.- 5 The Derived Metamodels.- 5.1 Booch.- 5.2 OMT.- 5.3 RDD.- 5.4 MOSES.- 5.5 SOMA.- 5.6 Martin/Odell.- 5.7 BON.- 5.8 Fusion.- 5.9 DOSE.- 5.10 Goad.- 5.11 Shlaer and Mellor.- 5.12 Firesmith.- 5.13 OBA.- 5.14 ROOM.- III The COMMA core metamodels.- 6 An Embryonic Core.- 6.1 The static model for instances, classes, and types.- 6.1.1 Encapsulation.- 6.2 The static model for relationships...- 6.2.1 Aggregation.- 6.2.2 Generalization.- 6.2.3 Association/using.- 6.2.4 A proposed core metamodel for relationships.- 6.3 The metamodel for state transitions.- 7 Conclusions and Recommendations.- References.