v4.1.2

With this release we introduced hover texts for the strategic DDD patterns in our CML editor. The following keywords show a short description if the user moves the mouse over the keyword or presses F2 while having the cursor on the keyword: ContextMap, BoundedContext, U, D, S, C, P, SK, OHS, PL, ACL, CF, Aggregate, Domain, Subdomain

v4.1.1

Bugfix release:

• AR-6: Merge Aggregates:
  • Ensure that resulting aggregate contains only one aggregate root.

v4.1.0

Features & Bugfixes in v4.1.0:

• MDSL generator supports service (tactic DDD Service pattern) methods now (operations used for endpoints: aggregate root methods & service methods)
• MDSL generator: improved generated comments according to user feedback
• Bugfix: PlantUML class diagram generator can handle methods without return values now (no exception)
• CML language: 'def' and 'void' are proper keywords now and cannot be used for names anymore

v4.0.0

New features and improvements in v4.0.0:

• CML semantic validator: An aggregate can only contain one entity which is aggregate root (breaking change if you modeled aggregates with multiple roots)
• General plugin changes:
  • Generator menu entry order has changed: 1. MDSL, 2. PlantUML, 3. ServiceCutter
  • Generators are now also available in the editors context menu (right click -> Context Mapper)
• MDSL generator changes:
  • Support of primitive data types directly used in parameters or return values (CML primitive types map to corresponding MDSL types)
    • CML Date maps to MDSL V<string> since there is no date in MDSL
  • Bugfix: Generator no longer produces StackOverflowException if you model cyclic reference (recursion stops and references abstract data type)
  • If an operation has no parameters, we use MDSL's V<void>
  • Introduced name extensions for aggregates (*Aggregate), providers (*Provider) and clients (*Client)
  • Improved error messages for cases in which input is missing
  • If the relationship's implementation technology is not specified, we generate "tbd" and a comment as protocol
  • Generator creates comment if an endpoint has no operations due to missing entity methods
• Architectural Refactoring (AR) improvements:
  • AR-4: Extract Aggregates by Volatility:
    • User can only select likelihood for change values which actually occur in the selected bounded context, since other selections do not change anything.
    • If the user selects another value, an error message appears in the dialog.
  • AR-5: Extract Aggregates by Cohesion:
    • The selection dialog shows a warning message if the user selects all aggregates.
    • Extracting all aggregates from a bounded context does not make much sense. You could also just rename the existing bounded context.
    • However, we just produce a warning. It's still possible to do it.
  • AR-6: Merge Aggregates:
    • The AR can no longer be executed if the merge would lead to a duplicate entity error within the new aggregate.
    • A message box informs the user about this problem now.
  • AR-6: Merge Aggregates & AR-7: Merge Bounded Contexts:
    • Both merge AR's provide a checkbox now with which the user can specify that attributes which cannot be merged should be taken from the second aggregate/bounded context. By default we take attributes which cannot be merged from the first aggregate/bounded context.
    • List attributes are always merged.
    • The bounded context attribute implementationTechnology is merged as well (comma-separated string list)
• PlantUML generator change:
  • Improved error message in case a class diagram cannot be generated (no entities available)

v3.4.0

New features in v3.4.0:

• PlantUML class diagram generator creates methods for corresponding CML operations now (methods on entities, value objects, etc.)
• PlantUML class diagram generator creates classes and corresponding methods for service classes (tactic DDD services)
• MDSL generator produces parameter trees if parameters and/or return types are specified in CML (entities, value objects, etc.)
• MDSL generator uses * cardinality if data type in CML is a collection (list, set, etc.)

v3.3.2

Bugfix Release:

• Register TacticDSL (Sculptor) in plugin.xml separately

v3.3.1

Bugfix release:

• MDSL generator fix: do not generate duplicate endpoints

v3.3.0

New features and bugfixes in v3.3.0:

• Bugfix: Context maps and especially exposed aggregates are now respected by all Architectural Refactorings (ARs). All ARs should now result in error-free context maps.
• Bugfix: PlantUML component generator produces unique interface names now (even if there are multiple relationships between the same two bounded contexts).
• Renamed AR 'Extract Aggregates by NFR' to 'Extract Aggregates by Cohesion'
• Changes to AR 'Extract Aggregates which are Likely to Change':
  • Renamed to 'Extract Aggregates by Volatility'
  • likelihoodForChange (RARELY, NORMAL, OFTEN) can now be chosen in a dialog. Thereby you can extract aggregates by all three values and not only OFTEN, as before.
• AR 'Split Bounded Context by Duplicate Entity Name' has been removed.
• New AR 'Merge Aggregates' has been added.
• A first version of the MDSL (https://socadk.github.io/MDSL/) generator has been added to produce (micro-) service contracts out of the context maps (proof of concept).

v3.2.1

Bugfix release:

• AR 'Split Aggregate by Entities': Generate 'aggregateRoot' property within entities of newly generated aggregates

v3.2.0

New features in v3.2.0:

• Property likelihoodForChange on aggregate to specify structural volatility; options: RARELY, NORMAL, OFTEN
• Architectural Refactorings (ARs):
  • Extract Aggregates which are Likely for Change
  • Extract Aggregates by NFR (Manual Selection)
  • Merge Bounded Contexts

Note: A list with all ARs and corresponding CML examples can be found in the examples repository now: https://github.com/ContextMapper/context-mapper-examples/tree/master/src/main/resources/architectural-refactorings

AR documentation: The documentation of the ARs can be found here: https://contextmapper.github.io/docs/architectural-refactorings/