Metamodel Syntactic Sheets: An Approach for Defining Textual Concrete Syntaxes

Espinazo-Pagán, Javier; Menárguez, M.; Garcí­a-Molina, Jesús

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“…By default, the syntax supports Java-like comments (lines 2, 6 and 10), but the style and symbols for delimiting comments can be configured. Finally, similar to [19], we can use a single template to define the syntax of several clabjects in the same inheritance hierarchy. Thus, if a clabject does not have an associated template, we use the template of its closest ancestor in the inheritance hierarchy.…”

Section: Defining a Default Concrete Syntax For Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Listing 7 shows the syntactic template that allows these linguistic extensions when creating DSMLs for process modelling, and Listing 8 shows its use. Line 5 in Listing 7 usesˆLingElements to allow defining new clabjects as part of a process model, so that we can define the clabject ProgLanguage in Listing 8 (lines [19][20][21][22] task Design "high and low level design" : SETask { …”

Section: Customising the Meta-modelling Facilities At The Syntax Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this case, there is only one attribute that will contain the name of the model. The attributes for event types are defined in lines 11-23, first the common attributes to all tasks (lines 12-13) and then the extensions declared at level 1 (lines [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. In particular, line 16 iterates on all nonabstract tasks at level 1 using SLevel1!…”

Section: Multi-level Code Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although there are many approaches to define textual concrete syntaxes for DSMLs [19,27], their definition for DSMM languages poses new challenges. For instance, there is the need to define the concrete syntax for models several meta-levels below, for which the concrete types that will be available in the models are unknown in advance.…”

Section: Approaches To the Definition Of Concrete Syntaxesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Model-driven engineering with domain-specific meta-modelling languages

2013

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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10270-013-0367-zDomain-specific modelling languages are normally defined through general-purpose meta-modelling languages like the MOF. While this is satisfactory for many model-driven engineering (MDE) projects, several researchers have identified the need for domain-specific meta-modelling (DSMM) languages. These provide customised domain-specific meta-modelling primitives aimed at the definition of modelling languages for a specific domain, as well as the construction of meta-model families. Unfortunately, current approaches to DSMM rely on ad hoc methods which add unnecessary complexity to the realization of DSMM in practice. Hence, the goal of this paper is to simplify the definition and usage of DSMM languages. For this purpose, we apply multi-level meta-modelling for the systematic engineering of DSMM architectures. Our method integrates techniques to control the meta-modelling primitives offered to the users of the DSMM languages, provides a flexible approach to define textual concrete syntaxes for DSMM languages, and extends existing model management languages (for model-to-model transformation, in-place transformation and code generation) to work in a multi-level setting, thus enabling the practical use of DSMM in MDE. As a proof of concept, we report on a working implementation of these ideas in the MetaDepth tool.We thank the referees for their detailed and useful comments. This work has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity with project “Go Lite” (TIN2011-24139), and the R&D programme of Madrid Region with project “eMadrid” (S2009/TIC-1650)

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Section: Defining a Default Concrete Syntax For Modelsmentioning

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Section: Customising the Meta-modelling Facilities At The Syntax Levelmentioning

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“…Although there are many approaches to define textual concrete syntaxes for DSMLs [7,10], their definition for DSMM languages poses new challenges. For instance, there is the need to define the concrete syntax for models several metalevels below, for which the concrete types that will be available in the models are unknown in advance.…”

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Domain-Specific Textual Meta-Modelling Languages for Model Driven Engineering

Lara

Guerra

2012

Modelling Foundations and Applications

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El acceso a la versión del editor puede requerir la suscripción del recurso Access to the published version may require subscription Domain-Specific Textual Meta-Modelling Languages for Model Driven EngineeringJuan de Lara and Esther GuerraUniversidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)Abstract. Domain-specific modelling languages are normally defined through general-purpose meta-modelling languages like the MOF. While this is satisfactory for many Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) projects, several researchers have identified the need for domain-specific metamodelling (DSMM) languages providing customised meta-modelling primitives aimed at the definition of modelling languages in a specific domain, as well as the construction of meta-model families.In this paper, we discuss the potential of multi-level meta-modelling for the systematic engineering of DSMM architectures. For this purpose, we present: (i) several primitives and techniques to control the metamodelling facilities offered to the users of the DSMM languages, (ii) a flexible approach to define textual concrete syntaxes for DSMM languages, (iii) extensions to model management languages enabling the practical use of DSMM in MDE, and (iv) an implementation of these ideas in the metaDepth tool.

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Harmonizing textual and graphical visualizations of domain specific models

Atkinson

Gerbig

2013

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Graphical Modeling Language Development

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Domain-specific models, and the modeling languages that support them, have played a central role in the success of model-driven development and its ability to bridge the abstraction gap between software implementation technologies and human developers. However, the current generation of domain-specific modeling tools is firmly split into two camps -those that support textual domain-specific languages and those that support graphical domain-specific languages. Both camps have enjoyed significant success, but at the time of writing no mainstream tool supports both at the same time. This stops developers from swapping freely between textual and graphical visualizations of a given subject of interest, even if each form has clear advantages and/or disadvantages for different stakeholders. In this paper we present an environment which offers a solution to this problem by strictly separating concerns for notation (i.e. concrete syntax) and concerns for concepts (i.e. abstract syntax) and allowing them to be connected and mixed dynamically as required.

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Metamodel Syntactic Sheets: An Approach for Defining Textual Concrete Syntaxes

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Model-driven engineering with domain-specific meta-modelling languages

Model-driven engineering with domain-specific meta-modelling languages

Domain-Specific Textual Meta-Modelling Languages for Model Driven Engineering

Harmonizing textual and graphical visualizations of domain specific models

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