Using EMF and ATL to improve types management in MDE proposals

JUAN MANUEL VARA; VERÓNICA A. BOLLATI; EMANUEL IRRAZABAL; ESPERANZA MARCOS MARTINEZ

Málaga

Workshop; 2nd International Workshop in Model Transformations with ATL , MtATL 2010; 2010

AtlanMod

An additional complexity inherent to any model-driven engineering proposal is the task of modeling the primitive types supported by each technological platform. If we want the models to be used as the input to generate directly the code that implements the system, the model has to be both complete and detailed. Otherwise, the code generation process 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 efficient technique for modeling of primitive types in platform specific models and shows its application for the modeling of Object-Relational databases. As well, we explore the implications of modeling primitive types in the development of model transformations. To that end, we specify a generic way of addressing this issue and show its application using again the Object-Relational databases modeling scenario.