openArchitectureWare: From Frontend To Code
Some of our friends from openArchitectureWare (Markus Voelter, Bernd Kolb, Sven Efftinge, and Arno Haase) have written an article called “From Frontend To Code” which covers the integration of several Eclipse technologies for the purpose of creating a complete stack of model driven engineering tools. You can find it at eclipse.org
Model-driven software development (MDSD) is not just about generating code. Several additional challenges have to be mastered. These include: how to get usable graphical and textual editors for your domain specific language (DSL), how to validate your models against your metamodels, how to define model modifications and transformations and finally, how to write scalable, maintainable and extensible code generators. In this article we describe how to tackle all these challenges, based on a collection of open source tools: Eclipse, Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) as well as openArchitectureWare. We believe that this tool chain provides a proven and stable stack for making MDSD a practical reality.
By Markus Voelter, Bernd Kolb, Sven Efftinge, and Arno Haase, all Independent Consultants
read the full article at eclipse.org