Derivation and Refinement of Textual Syntax for Models

Heidenreich, Florian; Johannes, Jendrik; Karol, Sven; Seifert, Mirko; Wende, Christian

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02674-4_9

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“…All the tools built with frameworks such as Xtext [10,4], EMFText [8], GMF [15] or ObeoDesigner 5 can be directly plugged on the Models@Runtime infrastructure to monitor the running system. The generated code is clean and provides an embedded visitor pattern and an observer pattern [6].…”

Section: Advantagesmentioning

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An Eclipse Modelling Framework Alternative to Meet the Models@Runtime Requirements

Fouquet

Nain

Morin

et al. 2012

Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

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Abstract. Models@Runtime aims at taming the complexity of software dynamic adaptation by pushing further the idea of reflection and considering the reflection layer as a first-class modeling space. A natural approach to Models@Runtime is to use MDE techniques, in particular those based on the Eclipse Modeling Framework. EMF provides facilities for building DSLs and tools based on a structured data model, with tight integration with the Eclipse IDE. EMF has rapidly become the defacto standard in the MDE community and has also been adopted for building Models@Runtime platforms. For example, Frascati (implementing the Service Component Architecture standard) uses EMF for the design and runtime tooling of its architecture description language. However, EMF has primarily been thought to support design-time activities. This paper highlights specific Models@Runtime requirements, discusses the benefits and limitations of EMF in this context, and presents an alternative implementation to meet these requirements.

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Section: Advantagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Eclipse Modelling Framework Alternative to Meet the Models@Runtime Requirements

Fouquet

Nain

Morin

et al. 2012

Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

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“…We have chosen the Manchester Syntax because its notations are closely related to the notations of KM3. The mapping between abstract and concrete syntax is solved using the EMFText framework for textual concrete syntax specification of DSLs [38]. For each instance in a model m conforming to some attribute in mm a data property assertion is created in o assigning the value to the individual, which is a projection of the corresponding instance.…”

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An ontology-based framework for domain-specific modeling

Walter¹,

Parreiras²,

Staab³

2012

Softw Syst Model

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Domain-specific languages (DSLs) provide abstractions and notations for better understanding and easier modeling of applications in a special domain. Current shortcomings of DSLs include learning curve and formal semantics. This paper reports on a framework that allows the use of ontology technologies to describe and reason on DSLs. The formal semantics of OWL together with reasoning services allows for addressing constraint definition, progressive evaluation, suggestions, and debugging. The approach integrates existing metamodels and concrete syntaxes in a new technical space. A scenario in which domain models for network devices are created illustrates the framework.

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“…To achieve this, we need to bridge the gap between concrete syntax formalisms and abstract syntax metamodelling. In previous work [26] we presented EMFText-a tool that addresses this bridging problem by integrating a parser generator with the metamodelling framework EMF [25]. The paper discussed the conceptual relations between Ecore a metamodelling language for abstract syntax and CS an EBNF-like language to define concrete syntax.…”

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“…Notice though, that while grammar inheritance as used in [38] can express such constellations, it comes with its own problems. In particular, it is so open that a composition could even express (possibly accidentally) that b precedes a, which would probably cause problems with the remaining definition of component A Because our current implementation of LanGems is based on the context-free parser used by EMFText [26], language component authors need to be handle conflicts with token definitions used in other components. This is so because tokens are resolved without reference to their grammatical context.…”

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A Role-Based Approach towards Modular Language Engineering

Wende

Thieme

Zschaler

2010

Software Language Engineering

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Abstract. Modularisation can reduce the effort in designing and maintaining language specifications. Existing approaches to language modularisation are typically either focused on language syntax or on language semantics. In this paper, we propose a modularisation approach covering both syntax and semantics. We propose defining composition rules on the level of abstract syntax, making it the central artefact in a language module. To enable clean interfaces for such language modules-effectively making them language components-we use rolemodelling at the metamodel level. We discuss how role-based metamodelling supports the aspectual modularisation of language semantics and can also be integrated with concrete syntax specifications to build self-contained language components. We present the implementation of our approach in the LanGems language compositions system and show how it can be used to provide a modularised definition of the Object Constraint Language.

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Derivation and Refinement of Textual Syntax for Models

Cited by 82 publications

References 7 publications

An Eclipse Modelling Framework Alternative to Meet the Models@Runtime Requirements

An Eclipse Modelling Framework Alternative to Meet the Models@Runtime Requirements

An ontology-based framework for domain-specific modeling

A Role-Based Approach towards Modular Language Engineering

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