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Welcome to Tom: a software environment for defining transformations

News [2016-08-22]

Tom has moved to github Tom version 2.10 is out! Tom version 2.9 is out! A Tom-EMF tool appeared in the Tom source version A 5 minutes video introduction has been taped during the RII meeting (in french) Tom APIs are now documented Information about Licensing_conditions A simple implementation of Binary Decision Diagram is available here A nice post introducing Tom by Luis Diego Fallas part 1 part 2 part 3 Term-graph rewriting in Tom: an example in the guided tour

What is Tom?

• Tom is a language extension designed to manipulate tree structures and XML documents
• Tom provides pattern matching facilities to inspect objects and retrieve values
• Tom can be used with C, Java, Python, C++, C#, etc.
• Tom is used in several companies to implement transformations of programs and queries
• Tom is a mature and stable project which started in 2001 (see museum)
• Here you will find a 5 minutes presentation video

Getting Started

• the current stable version is Tom version 2.10 which is available for download :
  • windows version
  • stable version
  • examples
  • full version (stable version + source code + examples)

• Installation guide
• Guided Tour
• The full documentation for Tom-2.10 is available online (and also for the current source version) or as a PDF Book for Tom-2.7

Tom and Java

When Tom is used in a Java environment some additional features are available:

• We provide a generator of efficient object oriented tree based data-structures (Gom)
• We provide a powerful strategy language that can be used to control transformations
• We provide a models transformation engine relying on Ecore EMF. It includes a generator of Tom-EMF mappings, dedicated Tom construct to express a model transformation, and a dedicated introspector to be able to use strategies with models

Materials

• Logos
• Integrating Tom in an existing Java application that uses Java Persistence API: Video

• Tom in the news : Here is a collection of links to what speaks about Tom on the web.
• Material for lectures
• The old Research zone link has been transferred to the TomResearch wiki, which is a private wiki with a limited access (subscriptions have been closed). Useful links have been dispatched.

Tom wiki

• Due to a lot of spam messages, account creation has been disabled. To create an account, please contact us
• This wiki site is quite new (and under construction), feel free to contribute
• The old website is there
• See MetaDoc for a list of templates
• Formatting
• Mediawiki:Sidebar to modify the sidebar
• Template:News to modify the news box