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Re: [jwt-dev] Re: [Fwd: Re: [stp-dev] Intermediate ModelCode Contribution]

Great news, I'm looking forward to this !

Regards
Marc

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:54:59 +0100, Stéphane Drapeau
<Stephane.Drapeau@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> Yes it's hard to programmatically launch an ATL tranformation. I tried! 
> So I use the first option (launch configuration). It works well.
> I agree, as first step, we can try to do it by using ant and then by 
> using the ATL APIs. To test it, I will code a launcher using ant for the 
> JWT2BPMN transformation.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Stéphane
> 
>> Hi Stéphane,
>>
>>
>>
>> you've told me before it's seemingly difficult to programmatically
> launch
>>
>> an ATL transformation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Since it's much easier to do it from Ant, calling ant programmatically
>>
>> (like documented here
>>
>>
>
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0502_gawor/0502_gawor.html
>>
>> ) may be a good workaround.
>>
>>
>>
>> Obviously, it's going to need some wrapper code, and it'll need to be
>>
>> replaced when the ATL APIs are ready, however I think it'd be worth it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Your opinion ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:07:21 +0100, Stéphane Drapeau
>>
>> <Stephane.Drapeau@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> > Hi,
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > Below an answer of William Piers, who is currently working on the m2m
> 
>>>     
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>>> > part of modeling, especially in the ATL and QVT-R projects.
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > ----
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > Hello,
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > Andrea Zoppello a écrit :
>>>     
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>>   
>>>> >> Hi,
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >>
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> It's not mandatory to use EMF Based Java Code, At the moment we've
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >>
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> BPMN->IM  ( Java based on EMF API )
>>>>       
>>
>>   
>>>> >> IM->JBI ( EMFT JET2 )  - This trnasformation is provided in spagic
> 2.0 
>>>>       
>>
>>   
>>>> >> ( LGPL ) http://forge.objectweb.org/projects/spagic
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> IM->JBI Wsdl generation ( EMFT 2 JET ) This trnasformation is
> provided 
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> in spagic 2.0 ( LGPL )
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> IM->BPEL ( Java  based on EMF API ) This trnasformation is provided
> in 
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> spagic 2.0 ( LGPL )
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >>
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> I think it will be not a problem, to use ATL in future, the reason
> why 
>>>>       
>>
>>   
>>>> >> whe choose EMF Based Java code, is that at the moment it's
>>>>       
>>
>>   
>>>> >> the approach that i know better, and it's quite simple for me. EMFT
> 
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> JET2 is quite simple and work well for me.
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >>
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> Another thing you would take in mind, it's that when you've 
>>>>       
>>
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>>>> >> intermediate model, and you want to have specific technology stuff,
> in 
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> some
>>>>       
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>>>> >> case you need to made a preprocessing in the Intermediate Model, so
> to 
>>>>       
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>>>> >> adapt to technology details.
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >>
>>>>       
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>>   
>>>> >> Is this possible with ATL??
>>>>       
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>>   
>>> > ATL can be launch in several ways :
>>>     
>>
>>   
>>> > - using Eclipse's launch configurations : by this way you can
> transform 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > EMF models persisted as .ecore files.
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > - using ant : you can chain ATL transformations, and trigger any
> other 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > actions during that process
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > - programmatically (inside/oustide of Eclipse) : you can use
> "customize" 
>>>     
>>
>>   
>>> > atl APIs to launch ATL transformations using Java code. For instance,
> 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > this will allow you to use in-memory models.
>>>     
>>
>>   
>>> > Note that we intent, in the next months, to provide a more usable API
> 
>>>     
>>
>>   
>>> > for programmatic use of ATL. This will be helpful in your case, as
> for 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > many users who often develop their own extensions over ATL.
>>>     
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>>   
>>>> >>
>>>>       
>>
>>   
>>>> >> BTW Have you any detailed documentation about ATL, and how to use
> it???
>>>>       
>>
>>   
>>> > Here is links to the relevant documentation :
>>>     
>>
>>   
>>> > http://www.eclipse.org/m2m/atl/doc/
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > This one is quite out of date (still valid, but doesn't contains all 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > informations), so you also can refers to the wiki :
>>>     
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>>> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/ATL
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>>> > 
>>>     
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>>> > 
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > William Piers
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > MDA Consultant
>>>     
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>>   
>>> > Obeo
>>>     
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