Robust Real-Time Synchronization between Textual and Graphical Editors

Rest, Oskar van; Wachsmuth, Guido; Steel, Jim; Süß, Jörn Guy; Visser, Eelco

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38883-5_11

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“…This works because all notational styles are implemented using the same projectional architecture. In contrast, maintaining an integrated overall model created with editors that combine parsing and diagram editing is challenging for a number of technical reasons [28]. These include that parser-based editors use (qualified) names to represent program node identity, whereas graphical editors natively use IDs for this purpose or that references in ParEs are created via name binding, and graphical editors use the unique ID.…”

Section: Efficiently Entering (Textual) Codementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards User-Friendly Projectional Editors

Voelter¹,

Siegmund

Berger

et al. 2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Today's challenges for language development include language extension and composition, as well as the use of diverse notations. A promising approach is projectional editing, a technique to directly manipulate the abstract syntax tree of a program, without relying on parsers. Its potential lies in the ability to combine diverse notational styles -such as text, symbols, tables, and graphics -and the support for a wide range of composition techniques. However, projectional editing is often perceived as problematic for developers. Expressed drawbacks include the unfamiliar editing experience and challenges in the integration with existing infrastructure. In this paper we investigate the usability of projectional editors. We systematically identify usability issues resulting from the architecture. We use JetBrains Meta Programming System (MPS) as a case study. The case study discusses the concepts that MPS incorporates to address the identified issues, evaluates effectiveness of these concepts by surveying professional developers, and reports industrial experiences from realizing large-scale systems. Our results show that the benefits of flexible language composition and diverse notations come at the cost of serious usability issues -which, however, can be effectively mitigated with facilities that emulate editing experience of parser-based editors.

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Section: Efficiently Entering (Textual) Codementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards User-Friendly Projectional Editors

Voelter¹,

Siegmund

Berger

et al. 2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Challenge 1. Past Spoofax work [21] to generate meta-models from grammars suffers from the same limitations as Xtext (above). However, Stratego/XT [22] can be used within Spoofax to address this challenge.…”

Section: Spoofaxmentioning

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“…Although it was not originally intended to create models, there is work [21] showing that Spoofax can be used for this purpose. We now relate the challenges from Sect.…”

Section: Spoofaxmentioning

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A Domain Specific Transformation Language to Bridge Concrete and Abstract Syntax

Herrera

Willink²,

Paige

2016

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations

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Abstract. Existing language workbenches, such as Xtext, support bridging the gap between the concrete syntax (CS) and abstract syntax (AS) of textual languages. However, the specification artefacts -i.e. grammars -are not sufficiently expressive to completely model the required CS-to-AS mapping, when it requires complex name resolution or multiway mappings. This paper proposes a new declarative domain specific transformation language (DSTL) which provides support for complex CS-to-AS mappings, including features for name resolution and CS disambiguation. We justify the value of and need for a DSTL, analyse the challenges for using it to support mappings for complex languages such as Object Constraint Language, and demonstrate how it addresses these challenges. We present a comparison between the new DSTL and the state-of-the-art Gra2Mol, including performance data showing a significant improvement in terms of execution time.

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“…Finally, there seems to be a convergence towards language workbenches where multiple, heterogeneous notations or editing modes co-exist within one language: MPS already supports graphical, tabular, symbolic, and textual notations; Spoofax is currently working towards integrating graphical notations (see e.g., [56]); and in the Onion language workbench, textual parsing is combined with projectional editing. Language reuse and composition.…”

Section: Observationsmentioning

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Evaluating and comparing language workbenches

Erdweg

Storm

Völter³

et al. 2015

Computer Languages, Systems & Structures

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Language workbenches are environments for simplifying the creation and use of computer languages. The annual Language Workbench Challenge (LWC) was launched in 2011 to allow the many academic and industrial researchers in this area an opportunity to quantitatively and qualitatively compare their approaches. We first describe all four LWCs to date, before focussing on the approaches used, and results generated, during the third LWC. We give various empirical data for ten approaches from the third LWC. We present a generic feature model within which the approaches can be understood and contrasted. Finally, based on our experiences of the existing LWCs, we propose a number of benchmark problems for future LWCs.

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Robust Real-Time Synchronization between Textual and Graphical Editors

Cited by 14 publications

References 19 publications

Towards User-Friendly Projectional Editors

Towards User-Friendly Projectional Editors

A Domain Specific Transformation Language to Bridge Concrete and Abstract Syntax

Evaluating and comparing language workbenches

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