Design Decisions for UML and MOF based Domain-specific Language Models : Some Lessons Learned ∗

In recent years, the development of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) that are based on the MOF and/or UML has become a popular option in the model-driven development context. As a result, the model-driven software engineering community collected many design and implementation experiences. However, most research contributions on this topic do not aim at supporting the DSML development process as a repetitive decision-making process. In this paper, we document some of our experiences gathered from developing ten MOF/UML-based DSMLs and present our experiences in a reusable manner via decision templates. In particular, this paper focuses on design decisions for the initial phase of the DSML development process, i.e. the definition of the DSML’s core language model.

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