Identification of crosscutting constraints in metamodel-based model transformations
László Lengyel, Tihamér Levendovszky, László Angyal · 2009
This Model-Driven Development (MDD) facilitates the synthesis of application programs from models created using customized, domain-specific model processors. Model compilers can be realized by graph rewriting-based model transformation. In Visual Modeling and Transformation System (VMTS), metamodel-based rewriting rules facilitate to assign OCL constraints to model transformation rules. This approach supports validated model transformation. Unfortunately, the validation introduces a new concern that often crosscuts the functional concern of the transformation rules. To separate these concerns, an aspect-oriented solution is applied for constraint management. This paper introduces the identification method of the crosscutting constraints in metamodel-based model transformation rules. The presented algorithms facilitate the better understanding of the transformation, their easier constraint-based configuration, and make both the constraints and the rewriting rules reusable.