XML-BASED MODELING LANGUAGES AND DATA BINDING FOR COLLABORATIVE DESIGN IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS

摘要

3D simulation applications are often developed or employed in distributed and multidisciplinary teams. An important basis is a common language for data modeling and exchange to simplify or even permit a common understanding. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) provides an excellent basis technology to define a common modeling language. Such a language can either be customized to a specific problem domain like modular and reconfigurable satellites and their on-orbit-servicing (OOS) in a distributed R&D space project. Alternatively, a standardized modeling language like X3D or AutomationML can be used if it fits an application's requirements. A common modeling language shall, however, not only be used for data exchange, but also as an application schema for participating systems to avoid "friction losses" due to translations. For that purpose, XML data binding techniques can be used to integrate XML schemata and data into object-oriented runtime systems. This allows for a tighter integration than generic interfaces like the Document Object Model (DOM) or the Simple API for XML (SAX).