NMF Models

The modeling foundation of NMF is a system that represents models as instances of classes generated for their meta-classes.

Why should I use this package?

This package contains the code for the NMF modeling foundation, in particular:

• ModelElement is used to represent a model element in memory
• Model is used to represent a model in memory, i.e. a coherent set of model elements
• ModelRepository is used to represent a repository of models, i.e. a collection of loaded models. A model repository is the unit to load models into memory. When models reference elements from other models, these other models are automatically loaded as required.
• MetaRepository is a special repository used to keep all the metamodels available in the process.
• ModelChangeSet represents a change sequence created over a model
• ModelChangeRecorder is used to record changes to models by collecting notifications
• ModelHasher is used to calculate cryptographic hash values for models, respecting that attributes and references can ignore order and ignoring referencing schemes

Where can I get more information?

There is a documentation website which we try to maintain that contains a few tutorials. There are publications if you want to explore the technical details. Also, please feel free to ask a question or report a bug.