A MOF-Based Metamodeling Environment
Дата
Авторы
Emerson,Matthew
Sztipanovits,Janos
Bapty,Ted
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Издатель
Journal of Universal Computer Science
Аннотация
Описание
The Meta Object Facility (MOF) forms one of the core standards of the Object Management Group's Model Driven Architecture. It has several use-cases, including as a repository service for storing abstract models used in distributed object-oriented software development, a development environment for generating CORBA IDL, and a metamodeling language for the rapid specification, construction, and management of domain-specific technology-neutral modeling languages. This paper will focus on the use of MOF as a metamodeling language and describe our latest work on changing the MIC metamodeling environment from UML/OCL to MOF. We have implemented a functional graphical metamodeling environment based on the MOF v1.4 standard using GME and GReAT. This implementation serves as a testament to the power of formally well-defined metamodeling and metamodel-based model transformation approaches. Furthermore, our work gave us an opportunity to evaluate sevaral important features of MOF v1.4 as a metamodeling language:Completeness of MOF v1.4 for defining the abstract syntax for complex (multiple aspect) DSML-sThe Package concept for composing and reusing metamodelsFacilities for modeling the mapping between the abstract and concrete syntax of DSML-s
Ключевые слова
Model Driven Architecture , Model-Integrated Computing , graph transformations