CouchEdit
Leander Nachreiner, Alexander Raschke, Michael Stegmaier, Matthias Tichy · 2020
Graphical models have long become an integral part of many system development activities. However, the support of such graphical notations through tools is still believed to be not optimal. We present CouchEdit, a novel approach for a diagram editor framework that realizes the relaxed conformance editing concept. Similar to textual editors, where the conformance to a formal language is checked in the background, this concept offers the modeler the freedom to draw unrestricted diagrams that are analyzed and (partially) translated into a metamodel instance. This paper presents the concepts and the general architecture of this framework and introduces core mechanisms that can ease the integration of new graphical languages into the implemented prototype.