1. Deploying Eclipse Modelling on an
industrial scale with software factories
EGF: a Generation Framework
Benoît Langlois – Thales/EPM
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Principles of EGF
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Principles of EGF
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4. History
Tooling for Mass-Producing Software at Thales
EGF: a Generation Framework – March 26th, 2009 – Thales Corporate Services - EPM
Generator portfolio
Tool Infrastructure Generation
Software Factory Portfolio Document Generation
Code, Testing
…
Tool Factory Engine
Eclipse
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5. History
Tooling for Mass-Producing Software at Thales
EGF: a Generation Framework – March 26th, 2009 – Thales Corporate Services - EPM
Generator portfolio
Tool Infrastructure Generation
Software Factory Portfolio Document Generation
Code, Testing
…
EGF [Eclipse Generation Promotion as an
Factories] Eclipse Component
Eclipse
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6. Objective of EGF
 The EGF (Eclipse Generation Factories) component is a proposed
open source project under the EMFT project to provide a model-
based generation framework
EGF: a Generation Framework – March 26th, 2009 – Thales Corporate Services - EPM
 Objective: supporting complex, large-scale and customizable
generations
 In order to meet this objective, EGF:
 Does not provide a new transformation engine or DSL editor
 Reusing them
 Provides an extensible generation structure
 Provides mechanisms of generation customization
 Promotes the constitution of factory portfolios in order to capitalize on
generation solutions
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7. Factory Component
 Deployable unit of generation with a clear objective of generation
 Unit of generation with a clear contract
 Assembly of factory components
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 Delegation
 Creation of heterogeneous and complex generation chains
 Explicit declaration of generation data organised by viewpoints
 Orchestration of the generation with a production plan
 Factory Component Lifecycle: edition and execution, including
validation
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8. Factory Component Structure
Factory Component
Generation Viewpoint
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Orchestration
0101
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9. Factory Component Structure
Factory Component
Generation Viewpoint
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= FC Contract
=
Model
Generation Pattern
Model Mapping
e.g., license, deployment,
Contrib.: One’s Viewpoint feature model
Orchestration
0101
Viewpoints: Explicit declaration of generation data
A viewpoint conforms to a language
Associated editor
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10. Factory Component Structure
Factory Component
Generation Viewpoint
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Orchestration
0101
Production Plan
FC invocation
Java Task
0101
Contrib.: Orchestration Type
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11. Generation Pattern
Generation Pattern: Generation solution to a recurrent generation
problem. A pattern has parameters, condition, and an
implementation. For the implementation, EGF proposes by default a
model-to-text transformation, Jet-based today.
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Pattern
Pattern customization:
New methods
Sub- Method overload
Pattern New method invocation
Patterns are defined in a generation pattern viewpoint
Patterns are executed by a pattern execution FC
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Principles of EGF
Agenda

13. Case Study
Model Mgt Generator
Model API
Model
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Model
Library Model, Edit, Editor
Library Application Model Edit Generator
Model Editor Generator
Domain Diagram Generator Diagram
Model Documentation
Domain HTML Web-Site Generator
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Factory Component