Towards Integrating Java EE into ProtoCom

A key concept of model-driven software development is the transformation of models into other models or source code. ProtoCom is such a transformation that generates a performance prototype from a Palladio Component Model (PCM) instance by means of a model-to-text transformation. The actual supported platform, on which the PCM instance is mapped, is Java SE. Even though related work suggests that multiple platforms should be supported, their concrete integration into ProtoCom is only conceptual. For instance, Java EE has been investigated as a possible target platform, however, ProtoCom lacks its integration as well as the consideration of the current Java EE standard. Therefore, we provide a novel conceptual mapping from PCM to Java EE, thus, allowing to implement a transformation that realizes the mapping. As basis for this implementation, we also provide an initial Java EE reference implementation of a simple example PCM model.