ATL Wish List

Unimplemented Features

Language Enhancements

• Allow module level inheritance
• Provide short names as well as long names for metamodels
• Syntactic enhancement for the “resolveTemp” function (new name, …)
• Provide an extended way to define metamodels:
  • Define metamodel’s extensions (conceptual solution)
• Pluggable navigation languages (OCL of course but also other ones like XPath, XQuery, …)

Implementation Enhancements

• Bind the metamodels to their name(s) (AM3)
• Improve the User Interface (AM3)
• Possible generation of bidirectional transformations:
  • A solution based on AMW is given in the UMLProfiles example
  • A solution based on Constraint Logic Programming has been proposed by Marc Pantel
• Improve the debug mode and console (offer the possibility to stop or continue an ATL transformation after errors, …)
• Provide static analyzers
  • a type checker…
  • a checker for “nullable” accesses (for example in OCL queries)
• Possible porting of the ATL virtual machine on embedded systems : provide “smaller” version of the ATL VM
• Implement new model handlers
  • Improve support for the UML2 Eclipse plugin (remark: see why this is required at ATL Model Handlers)
  • Improve support for the RSA Eclipse plugin (same remark)
• Implement new injectors and extractors
• Provide editor(s) to allow ATL extensions

Features Currently Being Tested

• Allow hierarchical packaging (extends a!b to a!b.c…)

Latest CVS version enables the use of <metamodel-name>!<package-name>::<class-name> for EMF. This patch provides the same feature for MDR.

• Provide support for using different files for defining a metamodel (technical solution)

This feature is implemented by this patch.

• Create a wiki web site for frequently asked questions (FAQ). It seems to be possible to use this wiki provided by Eclipse…