Dear All A fair amount has been written about the "Translationist" versus "Elaborationist" approaches to MDA. See, for instance, Dan Haywood's article (...
Dear All There is an interesting article by Ramkumar Kothandaraman of Microsoft on the problem of "Entity Aggregation" in the construction of Service Oriented...
Dear Ashley, Interesting ideas. Has you see the JAC(Java Aspect Component) open source framework. It gives me a rough idea: Translationist MDA + Aspect...
Responding to Ashley... ... In order to maintain our high standards of nit-picking, I would point out that the approaches are "translation" and "elaboration"...
Ashley, As you have noticed, the EMF approach is geared towards building tools. In the Generative Model Transformer (GMT) project (www.eclipse.org/gmt) we are...
In the paper that I mentioned in the previous post (http://www.softmetaware.com/mdsd-and-isad.pdf) you'll also find best practices for dividing complex domains...
H.S. ... Good point! ... If you take this wide definition of elaboration you are right. However, I was thinking of Elaboration as adding something that is not...
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Dear all, Some info about JAC(Java Aspect Component) list as follows: 1) address(just google with "JAC"-:)): http://jac.objectweb.org/ 2) open source framework...
Responding to Ashley... ... OK, but it just underscores the difficulty in drawing the line in the sand. For me, it seems like a pretty binary decision; either...
H.S. ... At least some Elaboration approaches add (as elaborations) business logic. Is business logic "non functional" in your view? (IOW, you've lost me!) ......
... However, I was thinking of Elaboration as adding something that is not there, and Replacement as substituting something that is there with something else....
Responding to Ashley... ... I would regard the specification of business logic as functional requirements. ... Both elaboration and translation do OOA and that...
H.S. I think perhaps this template thing is a red-herring. The point of what I was describing as a Replacement approach is to test early, and defer decisions. ...
Hi, Having a language (and editor) for a specific domain is a known and used technology, especially in product family development. When it comes to MDA, I've...
Responding to Ashley... ... Suppose your development system is Windows but you need to deploy on Linux. You can fully test the UI functionally on Windows and...
... Not necessarily, as you might just have two (or more) different generators that use services from different UI frameworks. Design model would be then the...
Hi,all My questions were produced when I search for the reflection package in MOF. I can find the reflection package and interfaces such as refObject,...
Hi,all, As I know, XMI, the mapping of MOF to XML, aims to automatically derive the XML interchange format for instances MOF based metamodels. So my question...
Hi Delly There are a wide variety of Open Source tools that have an XMI component, but since XMI imposes strict e.g. xmi:id disciplines on XML it is difficult...
Hi, Probably Eclipse EMF project ( www.eclipse.org/emf ) is what are you looking for! Take a look at http://download.eclipse.org/tools/emf/scripts/faq.php#mod3...
H.S. (Been away on holiday -- so a bit behind with the discussion!) ... Hmmm. I am not sure that I agree with that. If the PIM is a level of abstraction that...
Responding to Ashley... ... The subject matters and paradigms are different because a browser and a GUI deal with different display domains. For a GUI one...
... I myself use NetBeans MDR (http://mdr.netbeans.org) in conjunction with AndroMDA, great tool! I use them to transform one model (in XMI, created by...
Hello Experts in MDA, I have following questions, maybe someone can help: 1. There are a lot of Action Languages which seem to comply the UML Action Semantics...
Hi, I can't help you with (1), but I'll take a stab at (2): Basically, the current consensus is that the major camps in the transformation languages game at...
Hello Jim, Didier and Xavier, thanks a lot for your quick answer! I insert all the answers from you at the bottom of this mail... I found this paper about the...
Responding to whoever Steel was responding to... Somehow I never got the original message. Since Steel did (2) but not (1), I'll reverse... ... The short...