[occi-wg] A new paper on OCCIware Studio

[Philippe Merle]

Hi all,

We are pleased to announce you that our paper "A Model-Driven Tool Chain 
for OCCI" was accepted to the 25th International Conference on 
Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Oct 2017, Rhodes, Greece.

Abstract: Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) is the only open 
standard for managing any kinds of cloud resources, e.g., Infrastructure 
as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. However, 
no model-driven tooling exists to assist OCCI users in designing, 
editing, validating, generating, and managing OCCI artifacts (i.e., 
extensions that represent specific application domains and 
configurations that define the running systems). In this paper, we 
propose the first model-driven tool chain for OCCI called OCCIware 
Studio. This tool chain is based on a metamodel defining the static 
semantics for the OCCI standard in Ecore and OCL. OCCIware Studio 
provides OCCI users facilities for designing, editing, validating, 
generating, and managing OCCI artifacts. We detail the tooled process to 
define an OCCI extension. In addition, we show how the cloud user can 
leverage the generated tooling for this extension to create his own OCCI 
configurations and manage them in the cloud. We illustrate our paper 
with the OCCI infrastructure extension proposed to define OCCI-compliant 
compute, network, and storage resources.

A preprint version of the paper is available online at 
https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01583165/document.

Source code of OCCIware Studio is available at 
https://github.com/occiware/OCCI-Studio.
Binary distributions for Linux, Windows, MacOS are available at 
https://github.com/occiware/OCCI-Studio/releases.

Your comments are welcome.

A+
Philippe

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Philippe Merle
Inria researcher
http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~pmerle/