SmartQVT is a full Java open source implementation of the QVT

QVT

QVT is a standard set of languages for model transformation defined by the Object Management Group .- Overview :...

-Operational language which is dedicated to express model-to-model transformations

Model transformation

A model transformation, in model-driven engineering, is an automatable way of ensuring that a family of models is consistent, in a precise sense which the software engineer can define...

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This tool compiles QVT transformations into Java programs to be able to run QVT transformations. The compiled Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

 programs are EMF-based applications.

It is provided as Eclipse

Eclipse (software)

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system...

 plug-ins running on top of the EMF

Eclipse Modeling Framework

Eclipse Modeling Framework is an Eclipse-based modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured data model...

 metamodeling framework and is licensed under EPL

Eclipse Public License

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Components

SmartQVT contains 3 main components:

• a code editor : this component helps the user to write QVT code by highlighting key words.
• a parser : this component converts QVT code files into model representations of the QVT programs (abstract syntax).
• a compiler : this component converts model representations of the QVT program into executable Java programs.

See also

• QVT
  QVT
  QVT is a standard set of languages for model transformation defined by the Object Management Group .- Overview :...
  
  
• Model Driven Architecture
  Model-driven architecture
  Model-driven architecture is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. Model-driven architecture is a kind of domain engineering, and supports model-driven engineering of...
  
   (MDA)
• Meta-Object Facility
  Meta-Object Facility
  The Meta-Object Facility is an Object Management Group standard for model-driven engineering. The official reference page may be found at OMG's website.- Overview :...
  
   (MOF): a language to write metamodels
• Model Transformation Language
  Model Transformation Language
  A model transformation language in systems and software engineering is a language for model transformation.- Overview :The notion of model transformation is of central importance to information technology. A software system may be seen as a set of information transformations...
  
  

External links

• MOF 2.0 Query/View/Transformation Specification