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International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

MODELSWARD 2018: Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development pp 106–133Cite as

Definition and Visualization of Virtual Meta-model Extensions with a Facet Framework

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Model-driven engineering (MDE) provides gainful solutions to software development, maintenance and evolution. Model based standards and techniques emerged and proved useful to develop new applications but also for re-engineering legacy systems. Unfortunately MDE is subject to frequent new standards and upgraded releases which lead stakeholders to proceed costly maintenance operations of the software modules they depend on. The existing techniques suffer from limitations and require new solutions to ensure a better adaptability and flexibility of the tooling. We propose a solution to modify meta-models already in use without rebuilding completely the software product with graphical facilities. This solution includes an improved technique of virtual extension of meta-models with Facets and end-users facilities to handle the model mappings. An open-source implementation, including user graphical interactions, is available on-line.

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    References are the way to represent associations at the implementation level.

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    Available since version 1.0: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=463898.

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    Available since version 1.1: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=510039.

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    Eclipse mechanism to contribute functionality to specific open API plug-ins.

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  1. LS2N CNRS UMR 6004, University of Nantes, 44322, Nantes, France

    Jonathan Pepin, Pascal André & Christian Attiogbé

  2. Mia-Software, 11 rue Nina Simone, 44000, Nantes, France

    Jonathan Pepin & Erwan Breton

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  1. Université d’Angers/ESEO, Angers, France

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  2. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Luís Ferreira Pires

  3. Malina Software Corp., Nepean, ON, Canada

    Bran Selic

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Pepin, J., André, P., Attiogbé, C., Breton, E. (2019). Definition and Visualization of Virtual Meta-model Extensions with a Facet Framework. In: Hammoudi, S., Pires, L., Selic, B. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development. MODELSWARD 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 991. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11030-7_6

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