Interactive tool for semi-automatic creation of a domain model

Abstract

A method, system and program product usable by domain developers having any experience level in creating domain models. A representation of domain model knowledge is derived from a domain specification. The domain specification includes multiple potential domain objects, e.g., tables of APIs functional arguments, and each of the potential domain objects include one or more attributes. Potential domain objects are selected one at a time from the specification and offered to the developer. The developer decides whether or not to include the potential domain object in the domain model. If the developer decides to include the potential domain object then the system provides a default name i.e., the table name or argument name, and allows the developer to rename the selected domain object Then, after having selected the object, potential attributes e.g., table columns are selected from the object and offered to the developer If the developer decides to include a potential attribute, then a default name, i.e., the column name or name extracted from an API function, is offered for the selected attribute and the developer is allowed to rename attributes Once all the potential domain objects have been offered to the developer and the developer has either decided to include the potential objects or not, the system checks the domain model for nesting structure If domain objects include attributes that are shared with other domain objects then those domain objects may be reorganized such that some domain objects include instances of identically named attributes from other domain objects.