Reconciling TGGs with QVT

Joel Greenyer; Ekkart Kindler

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-75209-7_2

Reconciling TGGs with QVT

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Abstract

The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is an approach to develop software based on different models. There are separate models for the business logic and for platform specific details. Moreover, code can be generated automatically from these models. This makes transformations a core technology for MDA. QVT (Query/View/Transformation) is the transformation technology recently proposed for this purpose by the OMG. TGGs (Triple Graph Grammars) are another transformation technology proposed in the mid-nineties, used for example in the FUJABA CASE tool. In contrast to many other transformation technologies, both QVT and TGGs declaratively define the relation between two models. With this relation definition, a transformation engine can execute a transformation in both directions and, based on the same definition, can also propagate changes from one model to the other. In this paper, we compare the concepts of QVT and TGGs. It turns out that TGGs and QVT have many concepts in common. In fact, fundamental parts of QVT-Core can be implemented by a TGG transformation engine. Moreover, we discuss how both technologies could profit from each other.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems : MoDELS 2007
Volume	LNCS 4735
Place of Publication	Berlin / Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2007
Pages	16-30
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-75208-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75209-7_2
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems - Nashville, TN, USA Duration: 1 Jan 2007 → …

Conference

Conference	Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
City	Nashville, TN, USA
Period	01/01/2007 → …

Keywords

MDA
model transformation
model synchronization
Query/View/Transformation (QVT)
Triple Graph Grammar (TGG)
model based software engineering

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Greenyer, J., & Kindler, E. (2007). Reconciling TGGs with QVT. In Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: MoDELS 2007 (Vol. LNCS 4735, pp. 16-30). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75209-7_2

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