[jwt-dev] Re: [Fwd: Re: [stp-dev] Intermediate Model Code Contribution]

[Marc Dutoo <marc.dutoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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,
> 
> Below an answer of William Piers, who is currently working on the m2m 
> part of modeling, especially in the ATL and QVT-R projects.
> 
> ----
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Andrea Zoppello a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's not mandatory to use EMF Based Java Code, At the moment we've
>>
>> 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
>> IM->JBI Wsdl generation ( EMFT 2 JET ) This trnasformation is provided 
>> in spagic 2.0 ( LGPL )
>> IM->BPEL ( Java  based on EMF API ) This trnasformation is provided in 
>> spagic 2.0 ( LGPL )
>>
>> 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 
>> JET2 is quite simple and work well for me.
>>
>> Another thing you would take in mind, it's that when you've 
>> intermediate model, and you want to have specific technology stuff, in 
>> some
>> case you need to made a preprocessing in the Intermediate Model, so to 
>> adapt to technology details.
>>
>> Is this possible with ATL??
> ATL can be launch in several ways :
> - using Eclipse's launch configurations : by this way you can transform 
> EMF models persisted as .ecore files.
> - using ant : you can chain ATL transformations, and trigger any other 
> actions during that process
> - programmatically (inside/oustide of Eclipse) : you can use "customize" 
> atl APIs to launch ATL transformations using Java code. For instance, 
> 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 
> many users who often develop their own extensions over ATL.
>>
>> 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/
> 
> This one is quite out of date (still valid, but doesn't contains all 
> informations), so you also can refers to the wiki :
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/ATL
> 
> 
> William Piers
> MDA Consultant
> Obeo
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