An Empirical Study of the UML Model Transformation Tool ( UMT )

Development of distributed enterprise solutions can be a complex and time consuming process, involving many concepts, tools and configuration issues before and during coding and deployment. This paper presents UML Model Transformation Tool (UMT) an open source tool that uses UML models to support a model-driven development process. The tool enables a transformation architect to define transformations to do code generation, reverse engineering or model-to-model mappings. A number of transformations have been developed, including transformers for EJB and XDoclet, XML Schema and Web Services (WSDL, BPEL4WS). We identify a set of desired properties for UML transformation tools and evaluate UMT against these. These properties and the UMT approach are related to the ongoing activities within the Object Management Group for developing transformation specifications.

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