MID: A MetaCASE Tool for a Better Reuse of Visual Notations

Modeling tools facilitate the development process from modeling to coding. Such tools can be designed using a Model-Driven approach in metamodeling environments called MetaCASE tools. However, current MetaCASE tools still require, in most cases, manual programming to build full tool support for the modeling language. In this paper, we want to specify, using models, diagram editors with a high graphical expressiveness without any need for manual intervention. The second axis is dedicated to the reuse of this specification in other contexts. The redundancy in a diagram editor specification raises the problem of inconsistency during the evolution or the update of this specification. We propose then MID, a tool based on a set of metamodels supporting the easy specification of modeling editors with reusable components.