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MMT/QVT Declarative Languages

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TxVM

The Transformation Virtual Machine executes the compiled form of a transformation to perform a model to model transformation.

Plan: The QVTd project will initially use the ATC Virtual Machine from Open Canarias.

Future: If a more optimised TxVM becomes available QVTd will migrate to use it, otherwise QVTd will evolve the ATC Virtual Machine.

QVTi

QVTi is a very small unidirectional imperative transformation language that is syntactically a subset of QVTm, QVTu and QVTc.

QVTi is intended to be simple to transform to the representation required by a particular Transformation Viritual Machine.

Plan: The QVTd project will develop a QVTi to ATC transformation using QVTo.

Imperative Semantics

A QVTi transformation is a tree of composed unidirectional mappings without refinement. Each mapping introduces exactly one unbound variable. All output guard patterns are empty.

A QVTi transformation is executed by a single pass depth first traversal of the mapping composition tree.

At each node, a new unbound variable is introduced by one of the input or middle guard patterns. The set of bindings for this variable are determined by evaluating all the guard patterns in the context of the binding of each of the parent nodes. For each possible binding, the input, middle and output bottom patterns are evaluated and a sequential traversal of the composed mappings is performed.

Imperative semantics are imposed by the depth first search with a defined ordering of siblings.

Note that evaluation of middle pattern may create trace model instances, and that evaluation of the output bottom pattern may create or delete instances. An update transformation may therefore use early mappings to identify the required changes and late mappings to impose them without needing to re-access the 'input' model while in a transitional state.

QVTm

QVTm is a minimal unidirectional declarative transformation language that is syntactically and semantically a subset of QVTu and QVTc.

QVTm is intended to provide an interchange point at which transformations originating from a variety of transformation languages can be brought together to produce efficient composed transformation chains.

Plan: The QVTd project will develop a QVTm to QVTi transformation using QVTi.

Future: A QVTi to QVTm transformation could support legacy rescue of QVTo transformations allowing them to be contribute to efficient composed transformation chains.

Minimal Semantics

In addition to the Unidirectional Semantics:

Refined mappings are flattened.

Validation

context Mapping
inv: refinement->isEmpty() and specification->isEmpty()

QVTu

QVTu is a simple unidirectional declarative transformation language that is syntactically and semantically a subset of QVTc.

QVTu is intended to be a practical programming language for those applications that do not require the full multi-directionality capabilities of QVTc.

Plan: The QVTd project will develop a QVTu to QVTm transformation using QVTm

Unidirectional Semantics

The selected direction is identified by the domain attributes.

An input only domain is neither check nor enforce.

  • a checked domain is check.
  • a created output domain is enforce.
  • an updated output domain is check and enforce.

An input domain has no realized variables or assignments.

Middle domain input assignments are replaced by predicates.

QVTc

QVTc is a simple multidirectional declarative transformation language defined by the OMG as the QVT Core Language.

QVTm is intended to be provide an interchange point at which transformations originating from a variety of transformation languages can be brought together to produce highly efficient composed transformation chains.

QVTr

QVTr is a higher level multidirectional declarative transformation language defined by the OMG as the QVT Relations Language.

QVTr is intended to be the declarative programming language of choice.

Plan: The QVTd project will develop a QVTr to QVTu transformation using QVTu

QVTo

QVTo is a higher level multidirectional imperative transformation language defined by the OMG as the QVT Operational Mappings Language.

QVTo is supported by the M2M/QVT Operational Project.

UMLX

UMLX is a higher level graphical syntax for QVTr.

UMLX is supported by the GMT/UMLX Project.

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