Migrating a large modeling environment from XML/UML to Xtext/GMF
Moritz Eysholdt, Johannes Rupprecht · 2010
If you use UML to drive code generation, what do you do when a UML model grows so large that the tool needs 60 minutes to open it? What if it turns out that UML doesn't provide the expressiveness you need? What if your UML editor barely provides feedback about the validity of your models and the turnaround time from modeling to codegeneration and compilation is somewhere between setting up a new can of coffee and reading a day's amount of slashdot.org news? Time to look for a different modeling solution...