[great-users] GReAT and OTIF

[Gabor Karsai]

Correction:
The transformation classes can be used in a hand written "translator
main" program.
We (typically) don't use transformations in tool adaptors, but we use
them in translators.
And yes, in the OTIF-version of the ESML tool suite the ESML2PRISM
translator was written
using GReAT.

Thanks,
-- Gabor

 -----Original Message-----
From: Aditya Agrawal 
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:16 PM
To: great-users
Subject: RE: [great-users] GReAT and OTIF


I am fairly new to both GReAT and OTIF, but it seems to me that with a
few modifications, GReAT should be able to generate a translator for
OTIF.  Has anyone given any thought to implementing this idea?  What
issues would need to be addressed to make this happen?
[Adi] The Code Generator (CG) in GReAT produces UDM based code. The
generated code consists of two parts (1) The transformations in the form
of C++ classes and (2) a main file used to call the transformation. The
transformation classes can be used in a hand written OTIF tool adapter
and compiled with the OTIF compatible CORBA backend. A future
enhancement would be to optionally generate the OTIF tool adapter code
as well.
Thanks,
Adi