just read this Submission (sorry, I can't send the link right now, because i am offline on train).
This is interesting stuff. All of you have read about model to model transformation of course and some will also have read that paper. The approach is really interesting and in parts similar to the match concept within XSLT.
Well I like the concept a lot there is one aspect in their examples I would like to talk about with you:
Say we transform some PIM in some PSM (UML to Java). As of my understanding, the resulting PSM has
- java specific tags and elements
- no information that was only needed in the PIM
But, as described there is some mechnism that keeps track of the link between source and result elements. This is thougth to be used for "maintaining traceability information".
I think there is another benefit within the possibility to "know" the source object. You do not need to copy any information from source elements to result elements during PIM to PSM transformation. For example names, values, ranges and other information that would be needed in both models might just stay in the PIM because you can find the source element and ask it for those things. This should save some work when writing transformations between models and from PSM to code. Additionally the resulting PSM would really be PS.
Any comments??
Cheers Harald
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