UMMF - UML Meta-Model Framework

UMMF is an implementation of the UML Meta-meta-model, for the purposes of reifying meta-model implementations.

It is written in Perl and provides a specification of UML 1.5 meta-model in a human and machine-readable meta-meta-model description language.  

The meta-meta-model can be used to generate implementations of the UML meta-model in XMI, Perl and Java and other languages.  Thus, one specification of the meta-meta-model can generate meta-model implementations in many programming languages.  Once a programming language has been targeted with an exporter, code can be generated for UML meta-models and models.

UMMF is self-hosting; the Perl UML::MetaModel package is generated by bootstrapping from the meta-meta-model.

Models can be imported from popular UML editors via XMI 1.0 and 1.2.  Meta-models and models can be exported to XMI 1.2.

Models are reflective; generated models can reflect on their own meta-models.

UMMF contains model transformation libraries; for example:

1. Generate Interfaces for all Classes.
2. Transform Classes with multiple inheritance to single inheritance using Interfaces.
3. Remove AssociationEnd name collisions cross Generalizations.


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