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The Ecorification of Java code was originally developed as a part of a bachelor's thesis. The thesis is accessible at KITopen.
This is a proof of concept for the automatic integration of Ecore functionality into Java code. The resulting code can be used exactly as before, but it also uses the modeling infrastructure and implements all interfaces for Ecore-based tooling. To achieve this, the original Java code will be interlaced with the generated model code of an Ecore metamodel that was automatically extracted from the original Java code (see 0. Concept). For the extraction of Ecore metamodels from Java code, an automated approach was developed (see the EcoreMetamodelExtraction project and its wiki).
IMPORTANT: This first implementation is prototypical and is opposed to the Ecore metamodel extraction limited to the ecorification of few selected features.
The prototypical ecorification of a Java project consists out of the following steps:
- Extracting an Ecore metamodel from the project (see EcoreMetamodelExtraction).
- Generating a GenModel for the Ecore metamodel using it to generate the model code (see 1. Ecore Model CodeGen).
- Generating the wrapper classes (see 2. Wrapper Generation)
- Editing the inheritance of the original classes (see 3. Inheritance Manipulation).
- Encapsulating the fields of the original classes before removing them and their access methods.