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11.1 The core language-independent meta-model

The Core of FAMIX consists of a language independent meta-model that can represent in a uniform way multiple object-oriented and procedural languages.

The figure below offers a an overview of the class hierarchy, including some of the most used extensions. The hierarchy is to be read from left to right, the entities to the right being specializations of those to the left.

Famix-Core hierarchy

The diagram shows the hierarchy, but it does not show the attributes or relationships. To give you an idea of the amount of relations provided by FAMIX, take a look at the figure below (every light gray link represents a relationship between two entities):

Famix-hierarchy-relationships.png

It can be daunting to try to understand FAMIX all at once. That is why in this chapter we take another route, and provide an overview of the most important parts. What does most important mean? These would be the parts that you are most likely to need in practice. That is not to say that the other parts are useless, but a significant amount of tasks can be accomplished with knowing only a subset of FAMIX.

User Contributed Notes

tudor (30 November 2011, 6:09 am)

Thanks. It should be better now.

ross (15 February 2011, 1:29 am)

The graphic is completely illegible to me, and zooming doesn't help. Running firefox/iceweasel 3.0.6 on GNU/Linux.

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