NMF Synchronizations

Based on NTL and NMF Expressions, NMF also contains a language to synchronize models of heterogeneous metamodels, named NMF Synchronizations. Like NTL, it is also implemented as an internal DSL so that developers can familiarize quickly. This synchronization language is able to support 18 different operation modes out of a single specification: One may choose between three different change propagation modes (none, one-way and two-way) and six different directions (left-to-right and right-to-left in three different variants each).

Similar to NTL, a synchronization rule in NMF Synchronizations is represented by a class, inferring the synchronization rules by the public nested classes. The synchronization rules each define an isomorphism between the classes they are to synchronize, referred to as left-hand-side (LHS) and right-hand-side (RHS) class. These classes are passed as generic type parameters.