Proposal for a Model Driven Approach to Creating a Tool to Support the RM-ODP

The potential for revising the RM-ODP standards is an excellent opportunity to move the given specifications into a form that is more amenable to the provision of tools that support the standard. Adoption of the approach advocated by the RM-ODP would be greatly increased if tools to support the approach were more readily available. This paper proposes an approach to generating such tools, directly, from a model based approach to specifying the RM-ODP viewpoint languages and correspondences. In particular this paper highlights certain requirements that the specification approach would need to meet if the production of such tools were to be achievable.