Ecoreification: Making Arbitrary Java Code Accessible to Metamodel-Based Tools

Klare, Heiko; Bürger, Erik; Kramer, Max; Langhammer, Michael; Saglam, Timur; Reussner, Ralf

doi:10.1109/models.2017.30

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“…Rather, it is designed as a non-intrusive way to enable co-evolution for industrial tools. In contrast to research enabling generic MDE-compatibility of legacy software, such as Ecoreification [4] or the code-first approach by Boronat [5], we focus on the artifacts of such software.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Vice versa, industrial tools are often legacy software, which cannot be easily adapted or replaced to be compatible with MDE approaches, such as model-based consistency preservation, as they might be closed-source or simply too complex. [4], [5]. Moreover, while consistency preservation allows for immediately synchronizing models upon change, industrial tools might synchronize their state with a considerably lower frequency.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Towards the Co-Evolution of Models and Artefacts of Industrial Tools Through External Views

Saglam

Kühn

2021

2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C)

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Modern software systems comprise multiple models. When these models are changed, interdependent models must be evolved accordingly. Manually managing this co-evolution of models is tedious and error-prone. Moreover, other interdependent artefacts, such as persisted states of industrial software applications, must co-evolve accordingly. Automated consistency preservation allows for efficiently managing the co-evolution of models. However, while state-of-the-art approaches operate delta-based, typical software applications persist changes statebased without conforming to explicit metamodels. Additionally, software applications may persist changes infrequently, even though interdependent models might be concurrently modified. As such, current approaches are insufficient for artefacts of industrial tools. To address these issues, we propose an approach for the co-evolution of models and artefacts of industrial tools by treating these artefacts as external views on the models.

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Section: Mde Adoptionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the Co-Evolution of Models and Artefacts of Industrial Tools Through External Views

Saglam

Kühn

2021

2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C)

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“…Ecoreification [20] is an approach for re-engineering Java applications atop EMF, which provides backward compatibility at the service level. The approach extracts Ecoreconforming metamodels from Java code, from which code that unifies Java classes and EMF classes is obtained.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While MDE-agnostic applications can be reverse engineered [18], [19] or adapted [20], a few approaches [21], [22] build interfaces with MDE technology for MDEagnostic systems at run time. These approaches have been evaluated with a number of case studies used in industry.…”

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Code-First Model-Driven Engineering: On the Agile Adoption of MDE Tooling

Boronat

2019

2019 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)

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Domain models are the most important asset in widely accepted software development approaches, like Domain-Driven Design (DDD), yet those models are still implicitly represented in programs. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) regards those models as representable entities that are amenable to automated analysis and processing, facilitating quality assurance while increasing productivity in software development processes. Although this connection is not new, very few approaches facilitate adoption of MDE tooling without compromising existing value, their data. Moreover, switching to MDE tooling usually involves re-engineering core parts of an application, hindering backward compatibility and, thereby, continuous integration, while requiring an up-front investment in training in specialized modeling frameworks. In those approaches that overcome the previous problem, there is no clear indication − from a quantitative point of view − of the extent to which adopting state-of-the-art MDE practices and tooling is feasible or advantageous.In this work, we advocate a code-first approach to modeling through an approach for applying MDE techniques and tools to existing object-oriented software applications that fully preserves the semantics of the original application, which need not be modified. Our approach consists both of a semiautomated method for specifying explicit view models out of existing object-oriented applications and of a conservative extension mechanism that enables the use of such view models at run time, where view model queries are resolved on demand and view model updates are propagated incrementally to the original application. This mechanism enables an iterative, flexible application of MDE tooling to software applications, where metamodels and models do not exist explicitly. An evaluation of this extension mechanism, implemented for Java applications and for view models atop the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), has been conducted with an industrytargeted benchmark for decision support systems, analyzing performance and scalability of the synchronization mechanism. Backward propagation of large updates over very large views is instant.

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Ecoreification: Making Arbitrary Java Code Accessible to Metamodel-Based Tools

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 publications

Towards the Co-Evolution of Models and Artefacts of Industrial Tools Through External Views

Towards the Co-Evolution of Models and Artefacts of Industrial Tools Through External Views

Code-First Model-Driven Engineering: On the Agile Adoption of MDE Tooling

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