WebDSL: A Case Study in Domain-Specific Language Engineering

Visser, Eelco

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-88643-3_7

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“…We stripped all existing disambiguation tags from the sources, and by following the interactive disambiguation suggestions, were able to successfully disambiguate the files. We then introduced WebDSL [16] as an additional object language as a form of an evolution scenario. This introduced new ambiguities, as some expressions such as Expr |[ $[Expr:x] == $[Expr:y] ]| would be a valid quotation for either language.…”

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Interactive Disambiguation of Meta Programs with Concrete Object Syntax

Kats

Kalleberg²,

Visser

2011

Software Language Engineering

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Abstract. In meta-programming with concrete object syntax, meta programs can be written using the concrete syntax of manipulated programs. Quotations of concrete syntax fragments and anti-quotations for meta-level expressions and variables are used to manipulate the abstract representation of programs. These small, isolated fragments are often ambiguous and must be explicitly disambiguated with quotation tags or types, using names from the non-terminals of the object language syntax. Discoverability of these names has been an open issue, as they depend on the (grammar) implementation and are not part of the concrete syntax of a language. Based on advances in interactive development environments, we introduce interactive disambiguation to address this issue, providing real-time feedback and proposing quick fixes in case of ambiguities.

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Interactive Disambiguation of Meta Programs with Concrete Object Syntax

Kats

Kalleberg²,

Visser

2011

Software Language Engineering

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“…This conceptually solves the problem of not being able to refer to a reference backwards. Similarly, inverse properties in WebDSL [20] tie two fields in different classes together as inverses.…”

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“…Inverse Properties (G) WebDSL [20] supports bidirectional navigation without a verbose syntax for inverse lookups by means of inverse properties [9] as illustrated in Figure 8. Explicit names on both sides of an association simplifies navigation to just following named references.…”

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Unifying and Generalizing Relations in Role-Based Data Modeling and Navigation

Harkes

Visser

2014

Software Language Engineering

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“…Families of languages have been presented in the research literature for a range of domains: Voelter presents an approach for a family of languages for architecture design at different levels of abstraction [31], Akehurst et al [32] present a redesign of the Object Constraint Language as a family of languages of different complexity, Visser et al [33] present WebDSL, a family of interoperating languages for the design of web applications. All approaches, including ours presented in this paper, use very different kinds of technologies for their specific case: Voelter uses conditional compilation to construct an appropriate infrastructure, Akehurst et al use a special parser technology that enables modular language specification, Visser et al use rewriting of abstract syntax trees and our approach generates a monolithic infrastructure for each language.…”

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VML* – A Family of Languages for Variability Management in Software Product Lines

Zschaler

Sánchez

Santos

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Software Language Engineering

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Abstr act. Managing variability is a challenging issue in software-product-line engineering. A key part of variability management is the ability to express explicitly the relationship between variability models (expressing the variability in the problem space, for example using feature models) and other artefacts of the product line, for example, requirements models and architecture models. Once these relations have been made explicit, they can be used for a number of purposes, most importantly for product derivation, but also for the generation of trace links or for checking the consistency of a product-line architecture. This paper bootstraps techniques from product-line engineering to produce a family of languages for variability management for easing the creation of new members of the family of languages. We show that developing such language families is feasible and demonstrate the flexibility of our language family by applying it to the development of two variability-management languages.

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WebDSL: A Case Study in Domain-Specific Language Engineering

Cited by 108 publications

References 75 publications

Interactive Disambiguation of Meta Programs with Concrete Object Syntax

Interactive Disambiguation of Meta Programs with Concrete Object Syntax

Unifying and Generalizing Relations in Role-Based Data Modeling and Navigation

VML* – A Family of Languages for Variability Management in Software Product Lines

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