[news.eclipse.modeling.gmt.amw] Re: Bridge between Domain Specific Langu

[SKuhn <kuhn@xxxxxx>]

hi again,
on my way home I came up with an idea to refactor my questions in a more 
expressive manner:

Is it possible to transform a subset of a model to a subset in another 
model?

Maybe due to providing achors (model elements e.g. a source and target 
package) to the transformation, one to start from and one to transform to?

Even better, executing a specific transformation providing an anchor 
would be great then(in contrast to execute all transformations below 
that achor).

I can imagine that subset-tranformations (if existing) could be very 
powerful if they're connected with events.

I'm sorry not asking this way before.
-stefan


SKuhn schrieb:
> hi folks,
>
> I have a similar use case as described in 
> http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/amw/usecases/umlprofiles/.
>
> In short terms I want to work on an UML Model, translating every 
> DSL-Class to an UML Class with a stereotype of a self-defined 
> UML-profile (lightweight) and back. It should look for my GMF-DSL Editor 
> that he's working on his DSL-Metamodel (described in ecore).
>
> Now I have some concerns using AMW:
>
> 1. Is AMW ready for productive use?
> 2. How can I handle possible data loss for UML Elements that are not 
> representable in MyDSL-MM? I still want to read/write UML Models  (or 
> UML conform XMI files) leaving unrecongnized uml-elements unchanged.
> 3. Is it possible to run the corresponding transformations (EMF) event 
> based? Thereby I could have both models in sync resulting in the option 
> to open Eclipse UML2 editor and my own GMF-DSL-Editor at the same time 
> and work on the same model without versioning conflicts. (optional)
>
> Right now I'm not sure if AMW is the right way. If you want to take a 
> closer look on my set-up / point-of-view, I already described my problem 
> in detail in "Connecting DSL-eCore w/ UML2"  at
> eclipse.tools.emf    as well as
> eclipse.modeling.gmt    as well as
> eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2tools    as well as
> eclipse.modeling.mdt.uml2.
>
>
> Yours sincerly
>     stefan