1. A computer method for providing modeling language stereotypes in a programming model, comprising the steps of: in a processor, providing lightweight steoreotypes in a subject programming model, the subject programming model being written in a modeling language that defines metaclasses and has steoreotypes that extend metaclasses using respective applied profiles, and the subject programming model being formed of a given model element having a collection of applied stereotypes, said providing lightweight steoreotypes being by: storing keywords indicative of the applied stereotypes, said storing being in a manner that provides correspondence between the stored keywords and the given model element and in a manner that replaces use of applied profiles of the applied stereotypes; and interpreting the stored keywords and generating therefrom a model in programming code that implements the applied stereotypes, the stored keywords determining which stereotypes are applied to the given model element and providing an alternative to the applied profiles.
1. A computer method for providing modeling language stereotypes in a programming model, comprising the steps of: in a processor, providing lightweight steoreotypes in a subject programming model, the subject programming model being written in a modeling language that defines metaclasses and has steoreotypes that extend metaclasses using respective applied profiles, and the subject programming model being formed of a given model element having a collection of applied stereotypes, said providing lightweight steoreotypes being by: storing keywords indicative of the applied stereotypes, said storing being in a manner that provides correspondence between the stored keywords and the given model element and in a manner that replaces use of applied profiles of the applied stereotypes; and interpreting the stored keywords and generating therefrom a model in programming code that implements the applied stereotypes, the stored keywords determining which stereotypes are applied to the given model element and providing an alternative to the applied profiles. 3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of interpreting and generating employs EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework).