Famix Java is the metamodel included in Moose used to represent any Java application. As you can imagine, the metamodel is rather than complicated. For instance, Famix Java uses a lot the traits concept.
We will present here some incorrect, but simple and useful views to enable beginners to use Famix Java.
Class neighborhood
Most of the time, you only need to understand these core entities to start analyzing your application. You can retrieve the main concepts: Packages, Classes, Methods and Attributes. You’ll notice that relation between Methods and Attribute is made from the Access reification, as well as Method invocation through the Invocation concept.
The complete meta-model is not represented here. For instance, it also includes LocalVariable, Parameters, ParametricClasses and a lot more.
In Moose, all relation are bi-directional. We added the arrow on relation based on common usage, but you can always go the other way around.
Type neighborhood
classDiagram
FamixJavaMethod "*" <--* FamixJavaType : methods
FamixJavaAttribute "*" <--* FamixJavaClass: attributes
FamixJavaAttribute "*" <--* FamixJavaInterface: attributes
FamixJavaType <|-- FamixJavaClass
FamixJavaType <|-- FamixJavaEnum
FamixJavaType <|-- FamixJavaInterface
FamixJavaType <|-- FamixJavaPrimitiveType
FamixJavaType <|-- FamixJavaParameterType
FamixJavaType <|-- FamixJavaWildcard
FamixJavaClass <|-- FamixJavaException
FamixJavaClass <|-- FamixJavaParametricClass
FamixJavaInterface <|-- FamixJavaParametricInterface
Types are the central pieces of Object-Oriented programming languages. In the FamixJava meta-model, all types are subclass of the FamixJavaType concept. In addition to the FamixJavaClass previously described, we represent Interface, Enum, PrimitiveType, ParameterType, and Wildcard.
ParameterType and Wildcard are mostly used when looking for parametric type.
Primitive type are made to represent int, double, long, etc. in Java, as well as void if necessary.
Focus on Parametric Type
Parametric types are probably the most hard to understand. We made a full blog post about this subject.
