Hi all,
a Happy New Year to all of you - I hope, the transition to 2004 has gone
smoothly for everyone!
After all the crazy stuff we did in 2003, I thought: Why not program a
crazy New Year's demo cartridge for AndroMDA? :-)
I recently met someone who could not read UML models and the idea came to
my mind: A computer should be able to transform a UML model into narrative
text that can be read aloud! For example: Image a Company class that has a
1:(1..n) association to a Person class with the role name "employer" on
the Company side and the role name "employees" on the Person side. This
could be read aloud as the following narrative: "A company as employer
knows one or more persons as employees." You can easily put this into a
template:
#foreach ( $assoc in $class.associationLinks )
#set ($adata = $transform.getAssociationData($assoc))
$transform.getEnglishArticleAndNoun($class.name,
$adata.source.multiplicities)
as
$transform.getEnglishNoun($adata.source.roleName,
$adata.source.multiplicities)
$transform.getEnglishVerb("know", $adata.source.multiplicities)
$transform.getEnglishArticleAndNoun($adata.target.type.name,
$adata.target.multiplicities)
as
$transform.getEnglishArticleAndNoun($adata.target.roleName,
$adata.target.multiplicities)
#end
Reading attributes, operations, action states, etc. could be done
similarly. Is there anybody who would like to write such a cartridge? We
could include it in the distribution as an AndroMDA sample.
Cheers...
Matthias
P.S.: That was an example for AndroMDA 2.x, using a custom script helper.
An even more exciting task would be to write the same sample for AndroMDA
3.x using custom metamodel decorators! Volunteers?
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