Building Modeling Tools Based on Metamodeling and Product Line Technologies

MA Zhiyi; HE Xiao

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MA Zhiyi and HE Xiao, “Building Modeling Tools Based on Metamodeling and Product Line Technologies,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 219-226, 2014,

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MA Zhiyi and HE Xiao, “Building Modeling Tools Based on Metamodeling and Product Line Technologies,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 219-226, 2014,

MA Zhiyi and HE Xiao, “Building Modeling Tools Based on Metamodeling and Product Line Technologies,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 219-226, 2014,

Citation:

MA Zhiyi and HE Xiao, “Building Modeling Tools Based on Metamodeling and Product Line Technologies,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 219-226, 2014,

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Building Modeling Tools Based on Metamodeling and Product Line Technologies

MA Zhiyi^1,2,
HE Xiao^2,3

1.
Software Institute, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
2.
Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies Peking University, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100871, China;
3.
School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

Funds: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61272159), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No.4122036), National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No.2012AA011202), and National Science Foundation of China Project on Group Creative Project (No.60821003).

Received Date: 2012-01-01
Rev Recd Date: 2013-06-01
Publish Date: 2014-04-05

Abstract

Abstract

With the evolution of existing modeling languages and the emergence of more and more new modeling languages, it is necessary to rapidly build the corresponding software modeling tools with good quality. However, modeling tools for larger modeling languages are usually diversity in function and complexity in implementation technology. Taking building modeling tools as a domain, this paper presents an approach to building software modeling tools based on metamodeling and product line technologies. The paper provides the concept system of the approach and a feature model from diverse functions of modeling tools in order to specify the commonality and variability of the tools by deeply making the domain analysis, discusses the design and implementation of a general tool framework that provides the conveniences for reusing components and generating code for components, and specifies the mapping between the feature model and the components for modeling tools.
- Software modeling tool,
- Metamodeling,
- Software product line

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