Theory and Practice of Model Transformation by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319933177
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Abstraction Level: Reuse can be at the design level, e.g., in the form of design patterns [9], or directly at the implementation level to reuse transformation code.

Fig. 5.Different techniques enabling MT reuse across metamodels

4 Comparison of Some Existing Approaches

In this section, we analyze five prominent reuse approaches, classifying them by the introduced feature model. Each approach is based on a different technique, summarized in Fig. 5. Model types (Fig. 5a) is based on establishing a subtyping relation between metamodels. A-posteriori typing (Fig. 5b) works by retyping the model so that the reused MT can be applied to it. Concepts rely on genericity to rewrite the MT using a high-order transformation (Fig. 5c) to make it applicable to a particular metamodel. Similarly, MT patterns use a generative approach to synthesize specific MT code from a design pattern. Finally, multilevel modeling exploits the typing relation to apply the MT two (or more) metalevels below (Fig. 5d).

Table 1 summarizes how each approach instantiates the feature model. We provide more details on their working scheme using the running example in what follows.

Fig. 6.Reuse with model typing

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