Using EMF and ATL to improve primitive typesmanagement in MDE proposals

Model Transformation with ATL 2010.

工业技术;计算机科学

Juan M. Vara ; Verónica Bollati ; Emanuel A. Irrazábal ; Esperanza Marcos

Others  :  http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-711/paper2.pdf
PID  :  41799

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

An additional complexity inherent to any model-driven engineering proposal is the task of modeling the primitive types supported by each technological platform. If wewant the models to be used as the input to generate directly the code that implements thesystem, the model has to be both complete and detailed. Otherwise, the code generationprocess results in mere skeletons of the working-code, requiring from a lot of hand- programming to have a fully operable system. This work sketches a simple, yet efficienttechnique for modeling of primitive types in platform specific models and shows itsapplication for the modeling of Object-Relational databases. As well, we explore theimplications of modeling primitive types in the development of model transformations. Tothat end, we specify a generic way of addressing this issue and show its application usingagain the Object-Relational databases modeling scenario.