Pounamu: A meta-tool for exploratory domain-specific visual language tool development

Zhu, Nianping; Grundy, John; Hosking, John; Liu, Na; Cao, Shuping; Mehra, Akhil

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2006.10.028

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“…For example, MetaEdit+ (Tolvanen and Rossi 2003) is a tool for designing a modeling language, its concepts, rules, notations, and generators. Pounamu (Zhu et al 2007) is a meta-tool for the specification and generation of multiple-view visual tools. The tool permits the rapid specification of visual notational elements, the underlying information model, visual editors, the relationships between notational and model elements, and the elements' behavior.…”

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The DOPLER meta-tool for decision-oriented variability modeling: a multiple case study

Dhungana¹,

2010

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The variability of a product line is typically defined in models. However, many existing variability modeling approaches are rigid and don't allow sufficient domain-specific adaptations. We have thus been developing a flexible and extensible approach for defining product line variability models. Its main purposes are to guide stakeholders through product derivation and to automatically generate product configurations. Our approach is supported by the DOPLER (Decision-Oriented Product Line Engineering for effective Reuse) meta-tool that allows modelers to specify the types of reusable assets, their attributes, and dependencies for their specific system and context. The aim of this paper is to investigate the suitability of our approach for different domains. More specifically, we explored two research questions regarding the implementation of variability and the utility of DOPLER for variability modeling in different domains. We conducted a multiple case study consisting of four cases in the domains of industrial automation systems and business software. In each of these case studies we analyzed variability implementation techniques. Experts from our industry partners then developed domain-specific meta-models, tool extensions, and variability models for their product lines using DOPLER. The four cases demonstrate the flexibility of the DOPLER approach and the extensibility and adaptability of the supporting meta tool. D. Dhungana ( ) Christian Doppler

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The DOPLER meta-tool for decision-oriented variability modeling: a multiple case study

Dhungana¹,

2010

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“…In our prior work, we have developed a variety of frameworks and metatools to support specification and implementation of multiple view, multiple notation domain specific visual language environments [11] [20]. In each of these platforms we have struggled to find an appropriate means of specifying behaviour, despite having used a variety of approaches.…”

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“…It is increasingly common to use metatools to specify and generate domain specific visual design tools. Examples of such metatools include MetaEdit+ [12], GME [1], Eclipse GMF [8], and Microsoft DSL Tools [2] together with our own Pounamu 1 [20] and Eclipse-based Marama 2 [10] toolsets. High-level visual specifications of tool meta-models and visual language notations allow end users to modify aspects of their tools such as appearance of icons and composition of views and meta-models.…”

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MaramaTatau: Extending a Domain Specific Visual Language Meta Tool with a Declarative Constraint Mechanism

Liu

Hosking

Grundy

2007

IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2007)

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It is increasingly common to use metatools to specify and generate domain specific visual language tools. A common problem for such metatools is specification of model level behaviours, such as constraints and dependencies. These often need to be specified using conventional code in the form of event handlers or the like. We report our experience in integrating a declarative constraint/dependency specification mechanism into a domain specific visual language metatool, focussing on the tradeoffs we have made in the notational design and environmental support used. The expressive power of the mechanism developed is illustrated by a substantial case study where we have redeveloped a complex visual tool for architectural modelling, eliminating conventional event handlers.

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“…A wide range of meta-tools have been developed, including MetaEdit+ [6], IPSEN [7], MetaMOOSE [5], DiaGen [15], GME [8] and our own Pounamu [16]. Much recent attention has focussed on the Eclipse GMF [4] and Microsoft's DSL Tools toolsets [14].…”

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Marama

Grundy¹,

Hosking²,

Huh³

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Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE '08

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We describe the Marama suite of meta-tools. This Eclipse-based toolset permits rapid specification of notational elements, metamodels, view editors and view-model mappings. It has a novel set of behavioural specification tools for both visual and model level behaviours. An integrated mapping tool provides model transformation and code generation support. The toolset has been applied to several significant application development tasks and has undergone a variety of evaluations.

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Pounamu: A meta-tool for exploratory domain-specific visual language tool development

Cited by 28 publications

References 30 publications

The DOPLER meta-tool for decision-oriented variability modeling: a multiple case study

The DOPLER meta-tool for decision-oriented variability modeling: a multiple case study

MaramaTatau: Extending a Domain Specific Visual Language Meta Tool with a Declarative Constraint Mechanism

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