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CrossEcore: an extendible framework to use ecore and OCL across platforms

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Simon Schwichtenberg,

Ivan Jovanovikj,

Christian Gerth,

Gregor EngelsAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings

Pages 292 - 293

https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3194976

Published: 27 May 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Today, model-driven approaches are a cornerstone in modern software development. The Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is highly adopted in practice and generates Java code from platform-independent models with embedded Object Constraint Language (OCL) expressions. However, applications that target multiple platforms like Android, iOS, Windows, web browsers usually need to be implemented in different programming languages. Feature-complete Ecore and OCL runtime APIs are not available for all these platforms, such that their functionality has to be re-implemented. In this paper, we present CrossEcore: A multi-platform enabled modeling framework that generates C#, Swift, TypeScript, and JavaScript code from Ecore models with embedded OCL. An OCL compiler translates OCL expressions into expressions of the target language. The Ecore and OCL API can be consistently used across platforms, which facilitates application portability. CrossEcore is also extendible and can be easily adopted for new programming languages.

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ICSE '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings

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ISBN:9781450356633

DOI:10.1145/3183440

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University of Toronto, Canada
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Olivier LSauvětre LBousse ESunyé GKühn TSousa V(2022)A tool-assisted approach to engineer domain-specific languages (DSLs) using RustProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings10.1145/3550356.3563133(712-721)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3550356.3563133
Sarkar SStark KHoernicke M(2022)Design of a Validator for Module Type PackagesIECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society10.1109/IECON49645.2022.9968371(1-6)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON49645.2022.9968371
Jovanovikj IWeidmann NYigitbas EAnjorin ASauer SEngels G(2020)A Model-Driven Mutation Framework for Validation of Test Case MigrationSystems Modelling and Management10.1007/978-3-030-58167-1_2(21-29)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58167-1_2

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