Eclipse modeling framework for document management

Abstract

The lifecycle of document management applications typically comprises a set of loosely coupled subsystems that provide capture, index, search, workflow, fulfillment and archival features. However, there exists no standard model for composing these elements together to instantiate a complete application. Therefore, every application invariably incorporates custom application code to provide the linkages between each of these loosely coupled subsystems. This paper proposes a model-based approach to instantiating document management applications. An Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) based model is used to formalize the variable elements in the document management applications. The modeling tool supports the instantiation of an EMF model for every new application and supports the generation of runtime artifacts - this includes code, XML configurations, scripts and business logic. This approach to creating new instances of document management applications with a formal EMF model has been validated with a real-world document management application. Copyright 2005 ACM.