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Polymorphic Templates A design pattern for implementing agile model-to-text transformations Gábor Kövesdán, Márk Asztalos and László Lengyel Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary {gabor.kovesdan, asztalos, lengyel}@aut.bme.hu Abstract. Model-to-text transformations are often used to produce source code, documentation or other textual artefacts from models. A common way of imple- menting them is using template languages. Templates are easy to read and write, however, they tend to become long and complex as the complexity of the meta- model grows. This paper proposes a design pattern that allows for the decompo- sition of complex templates with branching and conditions inside into simpler ones. Its main idea is that the code generator does not know about the concrete templates that are called: they are determined by the objects of the model being traversed. The concrete template is selected through object-oriented polymor- phism. The pattern results in a flexible code generator with simple templates, good extensibility and separation of concerns. This agility facilitates the design for extension and changes, which is paramount nowadays. Keywords: Modeling · Domain-Specific Modeling · Model Transformation · Code Generation · Design Pattern 1 Introduction This paper presents a design pattern that can be used to create flexible model-to-text (M2T) transformation. The pattern is applicable on complex M2T templates and pro- poses an object-oriented decomposition for the generator, the model objects and the templates. This decomposition achieves reduced complexity, separation of concerns, improved readability and most importantl