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Most of domain-specific tool building and especially diagram editor building nowadays involves some usage of metamodels. However normally the metamodel alone is not sufficient to define an editor. Frequently the metamodel just defines the abstract syntax of the domain, mappings or transformations are required to define the editor. Another approach [8] is based on a fixed type metamodel, there an editor definition consists of an instance of this metamodel to be executed by an engine. However there typically a number of functionality extensions in a transformation language is required. The paper offers a new approach based on metamodel specialization. First the metamodel specialization based on UML class diagrams and OCL is defined. A universal metamodel and an associated universal engine is described, then it is shown how a specific editor definition can be obtained by specializing this metamodel. Examples of a flowchart editor and UML class diagram editor are given.
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This work is supported by the Latvian National research program SOPHIS under grant agreement Nr. 10-4/VPP-4/11.
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Kalnins, A., Barzdins, J. (2016). Metamodel Specialization for DSL Tool Building. In: Arnicans, G., Arnicane, V., Borzovs, J., Niedrite, L. (eds) Databases and Information Systems. DB&IS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 615. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40180-5_5
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