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As the approach of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is becoming mainstream in modern software development practices, there is a growing variety of tools to support the lifecycle of modeling artifacts. Standards such as Meta-Object Facility (MOF) defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) help to avoid information loss when trying to integrate multiple modeling tools across their technical boundaries. The proprietary Eclipse-based modeling tool SERAPIS defines a meta-language which is not compliant to MOF or any other modeling standard. As a consequence, metamodels specified in this meta-language and therefore also the instantiations of these metamodels cannot be interchanged with existing tools based on standards such as MOF which results in a vendor-lock. The contribution of this master thesis is to develop a transformation approach allowing to translate metamodels and models from the SERAPIS technical space to the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), which employs the meta-language Ecore as the de facto standard corresponding to MOF. To achieve this a semi-automatic transformation approach for metamodels is applied which is based on mapping the corresponding meta-languages.

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Gerald Margreiter was born in 1984 in Austria and has gained profound knowledge of Software Engineering techniques during years of consulting and realizing software projects for various organizations. In his diploma thesis with the Vienna University of Technology he provides an in-depth view at Model-Driven Software Engineering.

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