Extending MDT

The abilities of MDT^® environment can be extended by functionalities supplied by other producers. Such functionalities have to be available as Eclipse plug-ins according to specifications of Eclipse platform.

You can find plug-ins on the Internet from the Eclipse Plug-in Central website where plug-ins from different producers with different functionalities and abilities are available. 

Mylyn Bridge: Magik Development Tools

Mylyn (www.eclipse.org/mylyn) is integrated task management system that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. Mylyn Bridge: Magik Development Tools introduces all benefits of task-focused style of work provided by Mylyn into MDT environment. The tool is available for download on our website. 

UML

UML models and diagrams can be created by an UML editor available in TOPCASED toolkit.

XML

XML files can be edited with the use of editors delivered by Eclipse XML Editors and Tools plug-in. The plug-in also delivers editors, validation mechanisms for DTD and XML Schema files.