Towards the Generation of Graphical Modelling Environments Aided by Patterns

Garmendía, Antonio; Pescador, Ana; Guerra, Esther; Lara, Juan de

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“…8 shows the meta-model we have developed to represent graphical concrete syntaxes. It is an extended version of the one presented in [4], where we have added further features like layers, spatial relationships, reutilization through node inheritance, abstract nodes, and support for figures and edge styles.…”

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“…The architecture of our solution encompasses the drawing tool yED, and two Eclipse plug-ins: metaBup [12] and EMF Splitter [4]. While metaBup supports the whole bottom-up abstract syntax construction process, we provide a specific metaBup exporter that wraps the resulting meta-model and passes it to EMF Splitter, which produces a fully operational graphical modelling environment from it.…”

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Example-Based Generation of Graphical Modelling Environments

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Modelling Foundations and Applications

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El acceso a la versión del editor puede requerir la suscripción del recurso Access to the published version may require subscriptionExample-based generation of graphical modelling environmentsJesús J. López-Fernández, Antonio Garmendia, Esther Guerra, Juan de LaraAbstract. Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) present numerous benefits like powerful domain-specific primitives, an intuitive syntax for domain experts, and the possibility of advanced code generation for narrow domains. While a graphical syntax is sometimes desired for a DSL, constructing graphical modelling environments is a costly and highly technical task. This relegates domain experts to play a passive role in their development and hinders a wider adoption of graphical DSLs. Targeting a simpler DSL construction process, we propose an examplebased technique for the automatic generation of modelling environments for graphical DSLs. This way, starting from examples of the DSL likely provided by domain experts using drawing tools like yED, our system is able to synthesize a graphical modelling environment that mimics the syntax of the provided examples. This includes a meta-model for the abstract syntax of the DSL, and a graphical concrete syntax supporting spatial relationships like containment or attachment. The system is implemented as an Eclipse plugin, and we demonstrate its usage on a running example in the home networking domain.

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Section: Generation Of Graphical Modelling Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%