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[QVTo] Getting started with QVT [message #640169]

Fri, 19 November 2010 07:42

Eclipse User

Hi,

I'm new to QVT and I've been searching for some good resources for learning QVT. I've been searching on Google and looked at the Eclipse examples and the Wiki pages but I can't put all those bits together. Are there any step-by-step tutorials that you can point out?
I am going to be doing some UML transformations (UML to UML to be specific) and I've got this skeleton:

modeltype UML uses 'http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/3.0.0/UML';

transformation testTransformation(in umlIn : UML, out umlOut : UML);

main() {
--do something
}

If I have a sample UML model, how would I plug it in to this file and maybe just print out the objects in the model?

Re: [QVTo] Getting started with QVT [message #640319 is a reply to message #640169]

Sat, 20 November 2010 08:08

Eclipse User

Hi

A good tutorial would be nice, but I'm not aware of one.

QVTo provides a quite useful example project, and the QVTo spec is not
too unreadable.

Regards

Ed Willink

On 19/11/2010 12:42, Hafsteinn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to QVT and I've been searching for some good resources for
> learning QVT. I've been searching on Google and looked at the Eclipse
> examples and the Wiki pages but I can't put all those bits together.
> Are there any step-by-step tutorials that you can point out?
> I am going to be doing some UML transformations (UML to UML to be
> specific) and I've got this skeleton:
>
>
> modeltype UML uses 'http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/3.0.0/UML';
>
> transformation testTransformation(in umlIn : UML, out umlOut : UML);
>
> main() {
> --do something
> }
>
> If I have a sample UML model, how would I plug it in to this file and
> maybe just print out the objects in the model?

Re: [QVTo] Getting started with QVT [message #640329 is a reply to message #640319]

Sat, 20 November 2010 12:56

Eclipse User

Hi, thanks for your response. Where exactly can I find the spec? I don't think I've stumbled upon it in my searches.

Re: [QVTo] Getting started with QVT [message #640334 is a reply to message #640329]

Sat, 20 November 2010 13:15

Eclipse User

Hi,

I think that Ed refers to the OMG's QVT Operational Mapping
Specification (http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/2007-07-07)

Regards,
Toñi

El 20/11/2010 18:56, Haffi escribió:
> Hi, thanks for your response. Where exactly can I find the spec? I don't
> think I've stumbled upon it in my searches.

Re: [QVTo] Getting started with QVT [message #640335 is a reply to message #640169]

Sat, 20 November 2010 13:24

Eclipse User

Hi again,

maybe you could find useful chapters 6 and 13 from the book

Eclipse Modeling Project: A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Toolkit
Author: Richard C. Gronback
Paperback: 736 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (March 16, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321534077
ISBN-13: 978-0321534071

( http://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Modeling-Project-Domain-Specif ic-Language/dp/0321534077)

Apart from the omg specification is one of the more useful resources I
found.

Regards,
Toñi

El 19/11/2010 13:42, Hafsteinn escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to QVT and I've been searching for some good resources for
> learning QVT. I've been searching on Google and looked at the Eclipse
> examples and the Wiki pages but I can't put all those bits together. Are
> there any step-by-step tutorials that you can point out?
> I am going to be doing some UML transformations (UML to UML to be
> specific) and I've got this skeleton:
>
>
> modeltype UML uses 'http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/3.0.0/UML';
>
> transformation testTransformation(in umlIn : UML, out umlOut : UML);
>
> main() {
> --do something
> }
>
> If I have a sample UML model, how would I plug it in to this file and
> maybe just print out the objects in the model?

Re: [QVTo] Getting started with QVT [message #640513 is a reply to message #640169]

Mon, 22 November 2010 07:00

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: koen.yskout.cs.kuleuven.be

Pieter Barendrecht created a tutorial
(http://redpanda.nl/index.php?p=qvt), which may help getting started.

Also, the slides on http://www.eclipse.org/m2m/qvto/doc/M2M-QVTO.pdf
contain useful information. Some parts only made sense to me once I had
(re-)read the spec and became more comfortable with the basics.

Kind regards,

Koen

On 19/11/10 13:42, Hafsteinn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to QVT and I've been searching for some good resources for
> learning QVT. I've been searching on Google and looked at the Eclipse
> examples and the Wiki pages but I can't put all those bits together. Are
> there any step-by-step tutorials that you can point out?
> I am going to be doing some UML transformations (UML to UML to be
> specific) and I've got this skeleton:
>
>
> modeltype UML uses 'http://www.eclipse.org/uml2/3.0.0/UML';
>
> transformation testTransformation(in umlIn : UML, out umlOut : UML);
>
> main() {
> --do something
> }
>
> If I have a sample UML model, how would I plug it in to this file and
> maybe just print out the objects in the model?

Re: [QVTo] Getting started with QVT [message #640891 is a reply to message #640169]

Tue, 23 November 2010 08:15

Eclipse User

Thank all of you for answering, I am going to have a look at the items you suggested (I'm already going through Pieter's tutorial which is very helpful). If I have any further questions it is good to know that the community here is very friendly and helpful Smile

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