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/images/components/fml-core/FMLCore] Openflexo-core

Openflexo infrastructure to support federation

Each business manages its own set of information, domain specific languages, tools, models...

Extending, combining, synchronizing, representing them in a suited environment without duplicating this set of data is therefore key.

Openflexo offers a dedicated language (Flexo Modeling Language or FML) for defining domain-specific perspectives in relation to heterogeneous and separated technologies.

Besides it provides a set of mecanisms for manipulating and representing federated informations.

Virtual Models, Flexo Concepts, Flexo Roles and Flexo Behaviours​

In order to manipulate informations Openflexo aggregates them in an atomic notion called Flexo Concept.

A Flexo Concept associates various informations from different information sources(models, metamodels, graphical representation, GUI, spreesheets etc…).

These associations are called a Flexo Roles. A Model Slot is a reference pointing a kind of information resource(Excel sheet, EMF metamodel...), or even a Virtual model.

Flexo Concepts can be grouped by concerns within a modeling space named Virtual Model.

Openflexo provides a support to manipulate Flexo Concepts. Thereby Flexo Behaviours represent manipulation primitives, such as creation, deletion, access (navigation), etc… (see Working with Flexo Behaviours)

In Openflexo a Viewpoint provides the convention, rules and technologies for constructing, presenting and analysing Views. A Viewpoint aggregated a set of Virtual models.

An Openflexo View is the instantiation of a particular Viewpoint with its own Objective relevant to some of the preoccupations of the Viewpoint.

Openflexo Core depends on Connie, Pamela, Diana and Gina projects.

Contents of this package​

Openflexo Core Library mainly contains two parts:

The "model-layer":

The "UI-layer" (Swing):

  • Flexo-UI, which contains the core code for FML-core Swing tooling

  • FML-UI, which provides Swing tooling for FML

  • FML@runtime-UI, which provides Swing tooling for FML@runtime

  • FlexoOntology-UI, which provides Swing tooling for FlexoOntology extension

  • FlexoDocumentation-UI, which provides Swing tooling for FlexoDocumentation extension