#3 Provide ATC model-to-text support

[E. Victor Sanchez]

For a long time ATC has been interpreted by the VM model transformation engine (named Virtual Transformation Engine, by the way). It should not be too hard to succeed in converting ATC models into an equivalent Java form. The semantics for each ATC atom (instruction) is already coded in Java. We could even try to go straight to produce JVM byte-code as target artifacts, which would imply the need of some kind of facility that performs model-to-binary format.

The idea is to map Transformations to Java Classes and Functional Operations to Java Methods.

This would let transformations execute much faster and improve debugging experiences. It could also lead to supporting EssentialOCL2ATC as an efficient OCL execution/evaluation path.