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In general, OOMEGA is a self-describing system, e.g. the meta-metamodel is specified with the concepts of the meta-metamodel. The same applies to textual syntax specifications. There's a well-designed metamodel for textual syntax specifications. Moreover there's a textual syntax specification for that metamodel defined, namely "M2L". Hence you can use OOMEGA’s text editor – more specifically the "M2L" editor tab - to specify concrete textual syntaxes for your metamodels.
This is done as follows:
- Right-click on one of your metapackages, e.g. "org.oomega.architecture" and select the menu item "Create ConcreteSyntax as concreteSyntax".
- Double-click on the newly created concrete syntax and open the "M2L" editor tab.
- Type in the name of the concrete syntax, e.g. "Architecture"; you can do this in the "M2L" text editor right after the keywords "concrete syntax".
- Create a new line and enter the textual syntax definition for a class of your metamodel, e.g. "Component".
- Create new lines and textual syntax definitions for all other classes of your metamodel.
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