Multi-Domain Integration with MOF and extended Triple Graph Grammars

Abstract

One aim of tool integration is designing an
integrated development environment that accesses
the data/models of different tools and keeps them
consistent throughout a project being considered.
Present approaches that aim for data integration
by specifying (graphically denoted) consistency
checking constraints or consistency preserving
transformations are restricted to pairs of
documents. We present an example that motivates
the need for a more general data/model
integration approach which is able to integrate an
arbitrary number of MOF-compliant models.
From a formal point of view this approach is a
generalization of the triple graph grammar
document integration approach. From a practical
point of view it is a proposal how to specify multidirectional
declarative model transformations in
the context of OMG’s model-driven architecture
(MDA) development efforts and its request for
proposals for a MOF-compliant "query, view, and
transformation" (QVT) approach.