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Questions and discussions about the usage of QVT Declarative should take place on the [news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.modeling.m2m eclipse.modeling.m2m] [http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/ Eclipse newsgroup] for the [[M2M|M2M project]] (more details about this newsgroup there), of which QVTd is a component. Please, remember to prefix the subject of your QVT Declarative-related posts with <nowiki>[QVTc]</nowiki>, <nowiki>[QVTr]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[QVTd]</nowiki>. | Questions and discussions about the usage of QVT Declarative should take place on the [news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.modeling.m2m eclipse.modeling.m2m] [http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/ Eclipse newsgroup] for the [[M2M|M2M project]] (more details about this newsgroup there), of which QVTd is a component. Please, remember to prefix the subject of your QVT Declarative-related posts with <nowiki>[QVTc]</nowiki>, <nowiki>[QVTr]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[QVTd]</nowiki>. | ||
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Revision as of 14:22, 22 November 2009
Contents
Overview
The QVT Declarative (QVTd) component aims to provide a complete Eclipse based IDE for the Core (QVTc) and Relations (QVTr) Languages defined by the OMG QVT Relations (QVTR) language. This goal includes all development components necessary for development of QVTc and QVTr programs and APIs to facilitate extension and reuse.
The QVT Operational (QVTo) component provides corresponding facilities for the Procedural Language.
QVT Declarative currently provides:
- Editors for QVTc and QVTr
- Parsers for QVTc and QVTr
- Meta-models for QVTc and QVTr
(The EMOF-based implementations of the QVT models are the source of the normative models in ptc/09-11-04 for OMG QVT 1.1.)
QVT Declarative will provide
- a dedicated perspective
- an execution environment for QVTc and QVTo
- an integrated debugger for QVTc and QVTo
Specification
The base working document of this component is the OMG specification ptc/07-07-07 (Meta Object Facility (MOF) 2.0 Query/View/Transformation 1.0 Final Adopted Specification).
The QVTd project includes a special development documentation to identify:
- specification deviance (and explanations)
- specification interpretation
- specification issues
This page is a summary of specification related development choices. Its main purpose is to provide a basis for discussion with the community. Any feed back is welcome. Please use the M2M newsgroup for the questions and the Bugzilla for issues.
Status and Roadmap
History
| Date | Task |
|---|---|
| July 2008 | QVT 1.0 models, parsers and editors migrated from GTM/UMLX project |
| August 2008 | Editors adapted to use IMP |
| November 2009 | Models upgraded and used as basis for OMG QVT 1.1 models |
Currently working on
After an unsuccessful attempt to use ATL tooling to define a QVTr compiler and execution engine is being planned that will use transformations and will support both QVTc and QVTr.
The OMG specification provides an almost monolithic QVTr to QVTc transformation written in QVTr. This is difficult to understand, and cannot be used until a QVTr execution engine is available.
We therefore plan to transform QVTr to QVTc using QVTc transformations, these will be modularised by semantic concept to aid understnading and facilitiate extension and modification.
We plan to transform QVTc to a TxVM using QVTo transformations.
Until a good TxVM (transformation vitual machine) is available we plan to use ATC available from SourceForge and developed by Open Canarias.
More specifically we recognise that any practical use of a transformation is unidirectional requiring the multidirectional flexibility of QVTr and QVTc to be simplified. We therefore define the QVTu language as the unidirectional subset of QVTc, and QVTumin as the smallest subset of QVTu that supports practical transformation programming. Similarly QVTrmin is the smallest subset of QVTr that remains useable.
Using these subset languages we plan to realise QVTc and QVTr using the following transformations
- QVTumin to TxVM using QVTo
- QVTu to QVTumin using QVTumin
- QVTc to QVTu using QVTu
- QVTrmin to QVTu using QVTu
- QVTr to QVTrmin using QVTrmin
We hope that a good TxVM will arise as a separate project.
We anticipate that the QVTumin language will provide a suitably simple declarative language that will allow for effective application of transformation composition optimisations. These optimisations will be essential to avoid the costs of naive transformation chains. We hope other transformation languages will provide conversion to QVTumin so that transformations developed in a variety of languages can be composed into an efficient composite transformation and then transformed for efficient execution by a good TxVM.
Team
The QVT Declarative project is developed by E.D.Willink.
The current commiters are:
- Ed Willink (lead)
- Frédéric Jouault
Questions and discussions about QVT Declarative usage
Questions and discussions about the usage of QVT Declarative should take place on the eclipse.modeling.m2m Eclipse newsgroup for the M2M project (more details about this newsgroup there), of which QVTd is a component. Please, remember to prefix the subject of your QVT Declarative-related posts with [QVTc], [QVTr] or [QVTd].