Mid: A metacase tool for a better reuse of visual notations

Abstract

Modeling tools facilitate the development process from mod- eling to coding. Such tools can be designed using a Model-Driven ap- proach in metamodeling environments called MetaCASE tools. However, current MetaCASE tools still require, in most cases, manual program- ming to build full tool support for the modeling language. In this paper, we want to specify, using models, diagram editors with a high graphi- cal expressiveness without any need for manual intervention. The second axis is dedicated to the reuse of this specification in other contexts. The redundancy in a diagram editor specification raises the problem of in- consistency during the evolution or the update of this specification. We propose then MID, a tool based on a set of metamodels supporting the easy specification of modeling editors with reusable components.