Generating Application Development Environments for Java Frameworks

Abstract

An application framework is a collection of classes implementing the shared architecture of a family of applications. A technique is proposed for defining the specialization interface of a framework in such a way that it can be used to automatically produce a task-driven programming environment for guiding the application development process. Using the environment, the application developer can incrementally construct an application that follows the conventions implied by the framework architecture. The environment provides specialization instructions adapting automatically to the application-specific context, and an integrated source code editor which responds to actions that conflict with the given specialization interface. The main characteristics and implementation principles of the tool are explained.

Managing Variability Using Heterogeneous Feature Variation Patterns

“…In our previous work [9,10,11,12] we have studied how a generic pattern concept can be used as a basis of tool support for various cross-cutting concerns like framework's specialization interfaces, maintenance concerns, and comprehension concerns within artifacts of a particular kind (e.g. UML design models or Java source code files).…”

Documenting maintenance tasks using maintenance patterns

“…We also assume that the tool is integrated with a program editor and that the constraints are checked after every editing action. We will not explain in detail how the tool does all this; an account of the mechanisms is given in [12]. Every time a binding action is performed, the tool generates an updated task list (because new tasks will probably become doable).…”

“…In particular, we use a tool called JavaFrames (previously Fred) to implement the idea of maintenance patterns. JavaFrames [12] is an Eclipse [3] plug-in which allows the specification and use of patterns in a Java programming environment. Given a pattern specification, the tool provides task-driven guidance for a developer to carry out the binding of the roles as required by the pattern.…”

Peônia: um ambiente web para apoiar processos de desenvolvimento com utilização de padrões de software e requisitos de teste no projeto de aplicações

“…Foram encontrados na literatura atual, repositórios de padrões (Bolchini et al, 2002;Garzotto et al, 1999;Marinho et al, 2003) e ferramentas que auxiliam no emprego de padrões, possibilitando inclusive a geração automática de código (Braga, 2003;Braga e Masiero, 2000;Hakala et al, 2001b). No entanto, não foram encontrados ambientes que fornecessem requisitos de testes para facilitar a validação de sistemas desenvolvidos utilizando padrões.…”