vEXgine

vEXgine is a customizable execution engine of CVL (Common Variability Language) that fully supports the materialization process, including the delegation engine.

Requirements

To execute vEXgine GUI application

• Java JDK 8 or later

To create, edit and manage CVL models and metamodels

• Obeo Designer Community 8.1.2 or later (with the UML Designer plugin)

To use or extend the vEXgine API

• Maven 3.5.0 or later
• Eclipse JEE
• Libraries included in lib folder

To create, edit or modify ATL transformations

• Eclipse Modeling Tools (with the ATL plugin).

Usage

In order to use the vEXgine GUI application:

• Launch the demo/vEXgine.jar file as a Java application.
• In the application:
  • Load a variability model
  • Load a resolution model
  • Load a base model
  • (Optional) Load the metamodel of the base model (if not UML)
  • (Mandatory in current version) Fill the base model name in the transformations (e.g., IN)
  • (Mandatory in current version) Fill the metamodel name in the transformations (e.g., UML)

License

vEXgine is free software and is distributed under the GPLv3 license. See LICENSE for more information.

External code

This project uses code from third-parties, licensed under their own terms:

• JDOM Complete Java-based solution for accessing, manipulating, and outputting XML data from Java code.