Well we got jenkins working again, so we have new deployed snapshots.
Actually you shouldn't need ModelUtils anymore.
You should be able to cast all Model-classes to OpenEngSBModel and then
call the corresponding method directly.
If you cannot cast it, you're missing the java-agent VM-arg. Look at the
pom of the ekb-component in the section where surefire is configured to
see how it's done.
kind regards,
christoph