Generating Domain-Specific Visual Language Editors from High-level Tool Specifications

John C. Grundy, John G. Hosking, Nianping Zhu, Na Liu

Full text DOI 10.1109/ase.2006.39 dblp

Abstract

Domain-specific visual language editors are useful in many areas of software engineering but developing such editors is challenging and time-consuming. We describe an approach to generating a wide range of these graphical editors for use as plug-ins to the Eclipse environment. Tool specifications from an existing meta-tool, Pounamu, are interpreted to produce dynamic, multi-view, multiuser Eclipse graphical editors. We describe the architecture and implementation of our approach, examples of its use realizing domain-specific modelling tools, and strengths and limitations of the approach

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Grundy-al:ASE06,
  author    = {John C. Grundy and
               John G. Hosking and
               Nianping Zhu and
               Na Liu},
  title     = {Generating {Domain-Specific} Visual Language Editors from High-level Tool Specifications},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {25--36},
  publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
  year      = {2006},
}

Generating Domain-Specific Visual Language Editors from High-level Tool Specifications

Abstract

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