[great-users] thesis on MDA

[Olaf Muliawan]

Dear Aditya,

I'm a student at the Universiteit Antwerpen in Belgium and doing a thesis on
MDA. It concerns the case-study of "Write Once, Deploy N" in the specific
context of generating ears for different application platforms and thus with
different deployment files. The way the problem is tackled is with a series
of transformations and that's where GReAT comes in. But I have still a few
questions.

<excerpt>
Dear Halit,

I would like to thank you for your interest in GReAT and would like to
apologize for the late response.

If you want to create GReAT transformations programmatically you can
generate the XML version of the GReAT program. This XML file is not
compliant with XMI. XMI can be used in the GReAT process to specify the
metamodels for the source and target.

The best way to create GReAT programs programmatically is to use an API
designed for this purpose. I am also forwarding this mail to the GReAT users
mailing list so that other members of the GReAT team can add their comment.

I would recommend you subscribing to the list as it will help you get the
information faster. To subscribe please visit
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Thanks,
Adi

-----Original Message-----
From: Halit Oguztuzun [mailto:oguztuzn at ceng.metu.edu.tr]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 5:12 PM
To: aditya.agrawal at vanderbilt.edu
Subject: xme dtd

Dear Mr. Agrawal,

For an MS thesis project I am supervising we need to generate input models
for GReAT through some program. We understand that the generated models can
be in XME.  It would help us immensely if you could kindly provide the DTD
for XME.

Sincerely,

Halit Oguztuzun
Assistant Professor
Middle East Technical University
Department of Computer Engineering
Ankara, Turkey</excerpt>Is it possible to use UDM for this? It contains a
UDM2XMI converter.<excerpt>From: great-users-bounces at
list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:great-users-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of
Zonghua Gu
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:22 AM
To: great-users
Subject: [great-users] From GME model to Text


Dear All,

I read in the great manual that to transform from GME models into text,
you need to create a UML data model of the text format, after doing
graph transformation, use the visitor pattern to dump out text. Would
you please give me a toy example for that? I am trying to map from GME
models into a formal language, and I wanted to use great to do that.
Thanks a lot.

Zonghua</excerpt>Is there already any codegenerator support for middleware
(EJB, Hibernate, Struts, ???) or do I have to follow the directions as
described above to dump "text" which in my case would be boilerplate
code?Kind regards,Olaf Muliawan