A platform-specific model is a model of a software or business system that is linked to a specific technological platform (e.g. a specific programming language

Programming language

A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....

, operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

 or database

Database

A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

). Platform-specific models are indispensable for the actual implementation of a system.

For example, a need to implement an online shop. The system will need to store information regarding users, goods, credit cards, etc. The designer might decide to use for this purpose an Oracle database

Oracle database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

. For this to work, the designer will need to express concepts (e.g. the concept of a user) in a relational model

Relational model

The relational model for database management is a database model based on first-order predicate logic, first formulated and proposed in 1969 by Edgar F...

 using the Oracle

Oracle database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

's SQL

SQL

SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....

 dialect. This Oracle

Oracle database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

's specific relational model

Relational model

The relational model for database management is a database model based on first-order predicate logic, first formulated and proposed in 1969 by Edgar F...

 is an example of a Platform-specific model.

The term platform-specific model is most frequently used in the context of the MDA

Model-driven architecture

Model-driven architecture is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. Model-driven architecture is a kind of domain engineering, and supports model-driven engineering of...

 approach. This MDA approach corresponds the OMG

Object Management Group

Object Management Group is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling and model-based standards.- Overview :...

 vision of Model Driven Engineering. The main idea is that it should be possible to use a MTL

Model Transformation Language

A model transformation language in systems and software engineering is a language for model transformation.- Overview :The notion of model transformation is of central importance to information technology. A software system may be seen as a set of information transformations...

 to transform a Platform-independent model

Platform-independent model

A Platform-Independent Model in software engineering is a model of a software system or business system, that is independent of the specific technological platform used to implement it...

 into a Platform-specific model. In order to achieve this transformation, one can use a language compliant to the newly defined QVT

QVT

QVT is a standard set of languages for model transformation defined by the Object Management Group .- Overview :...

 standard. Examples of such languages are AndroMDA, VIATRA

VIATRA

The VIATRA framework is the core of a transformation-based verification and validation environment for improving the quality of systems designed using the Unified Modeling Language by automatically checking consistency, completeness, and dependability requirements.- Target Application Domains...

 or ATL

ATLAS Transformation Language

ATL is a model transformation language and toolkit developed and maintained by OBEO and AtlanMod. It was initiated by the team...

.

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• VIATRA
  VIATRA
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• XMI
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• MTL
  Model Transformation Language
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