Vinay Kulkarni
Sreedhar Reddy
ABSTRACT
We discuss our experience of using model-based techniques to generate model-based code generators. The central idea behind model-driven development (MDD) is to use suitable models to specify various concerns and transform these models to a variety of text artifacts. A business product needs to deliver a given business functionality on a wide variety of implementation platforms and architectures thus necessitating multiple sets of code generators. However, there is a considerable commonality across these code generators. In absence of a suitable abstraction for capturing this commonality, there is little or no reuse across these code generators. We present an abstraction for organizing model-based code generators as a hierarchical composition of reusable building blocks. A building block is a localized specification of a concern in terms of a concern-specific meta model, model to model trans-formation, and model to text transformation. Model-based code generation is a 3-step walk over the composition tree wherein the first step transforms individual concern-specific models into a unified model, the second step transforms the unified model into individual concern-specific text artifacts, and the third step composes these text artifacts.
- Vinay Kulkarni, R. Venkatesh and Sreedhar Reddy. Generating enterprise applications from models. OOIS'02, LNCS 2426, pp 270--279. 2002. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- UML Infrastructure 2.0 Draft Adopted Specification, 2003, http://www.omg.org/uml/Google Scholar
- MOF Query / Views / Transformations http://www.omg.org/spec/QVT/1.0Google Scholar
- MOF Models to Text Transformation Language http://www.omg.org/spec/MOFM2T/1.0/Google Scholar
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- MasterCraft - Component-based Development Environment. Technical Documents. Tata Research Development and Design Centre. http://www.tata-mastercraft.comGoogle Scholar
- Vinay Kulkarni, Sreedhar Reddy: Introducing MDA in a large IT consultancy organization. APSEC 2006: 419--426. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- An abstraction for reusable MDD components: model-based generation of model-based code generators
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