Generating Families of Business Components from Metamodel Hierarchies

Model-driven software development (MDSD) has gained acceptance in the software development industry over the last few years. Current approaches to MDSD favor targeting particular domains over general-purpose modeling and code generation solutions. The OMEGA toolset provides an infrastructure for the rapid development of domain-specific modeling and code generation facilities. It is based on the concept of metamodel hierarchies. In this paper we propose an extension to the OMEGA approach that is targeted at enabling the evolutionary development of families of business components by introducing additional model types. The paper provides an overview of the OMEGA approach and describes the integration of family and feature models as configuration data to the OMEGA code generator and the expected benefits. A short outlook at the end of the paper outlines future work on this matter