The Eli system

Kastens, Uwe; Pfahler, Peter; Jung, Matthias

doi:10.1007/bfb0026439

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“…19 We therefore concentrate on graphical DSLs in this subsection. Prominent frameworks for the development of graphical modeling languages are MetaEdit+ [9,55], GME [12,64,65], Pounamu/Marama [8,39,108] or DeVIL [54,88]. These powerful frameworks are designed for generating graphical IDEs, including corresponding code generators, for a specified graphical DSL.…”

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Language-Driven Engineering: From General-Purpose to Purpose-Specific Languages

Steffen

Gossen

Naujokat

et al. 2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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In this paper, we present the paradigm of Language-Driven Engineering (LDE), which is characterized by its unique support for division of labour on the basis of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) targeting different stakeholders. LDE allows the involved stakeholders, including the application experts, to participate in the system development and evolution process using dedicated DSLs, while at the same time establishing new levels of reuse that are enabled by powerful model transformations and code generation. Technically, the interplay between the involved DSLs is realized in a service-oriented fashion. This eases a product line approach and system evolution by allowing to introduce and exchange entire DSLs within corresponding Mindset-Supporting Integrated Development Environments (mIDEs). The impact of this approach is illustrated along the development and evolution of a profilebased email distribution system. Here we do not want to emphasize the precise choice of DSLs, but rather the flexible DSL-based modularization of the development process, which allows one to freely introduce and exchange DSLs as needed to optimally capture the mindsets of the involved stakeholders.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Language-Driven Engineering: From General-Purpose to Purpose-Specific Languages

Steffen

Gossen

Naujokat

et al. 2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…The VL-Generator generates visual structure editors from specifications. It is built on top of tools for graphical support (Tcl/Tk [7] and Parcon [8]) and for language implementation in general (Eli [6]). The topmost layer contains variants of visual patterns, each of which encapsulates the implementation of visual language elements in terms of specifications for the VL-Generator.…”

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“…The abstract program tree and the attribute grammar method enable the direct connection to many tools in the Eli system, which solve a wide range of general language implementation tasks [5,6]. The specification modules in the Eli system, e.g.…”

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“…Since our approach is based on tree grammars and definition tables, we can use tools for further processing, that have been originally designed for processing textual languages. We use the Eli system [4][5][6] which contains tools and modules for a wide range of language processing tasks.Throughout this article we use the Statechart language in the visual notation of UML [1] as a running example. Figure 1 shows a screenshot of the visual structure editor our tool has generated for that language.…”

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Implementation of visual languages using pattern‐based specifications

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Kastens

2003

Softw Pract Exp

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SUMMARYThe implementation of visual languages requires a wide range of conceptual and technical knowledge from issues of user interface design and graphical implementation to aspects of analysis and transformation for languages in general. We present a powerful toolset that incorporates such knowledge. Our toolset generates editors from high-level specifications. A language is specified by identifying certain patterns in the language structure and selecting a visual representation from a set of precoined solutions. Visual programs are represented by attributed abstract trees. Therefore, further phases of processing visual programs can be generated by state-of-the-art tools for language implementation. We demonstrate that even challenging visual languages can be implemented with reasonably little effort and with rather limited technical knowledge. The approach is suitable for a large variety of visual language styles.

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SmartTools: A Generator of Interactive Environments Tools

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Courbis

Degenne

et al. 2001

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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SmartTools is a development environment generator that provides a structure editor and semantic tools as main features. The well-known visitor pattern technique is commonly used for designing semantic analysis, it has been automated and extended. SmartTools is easy to use thanks to its graphical user interface designed with the Java Swing APIs. It is built with an open architecture convinient for a partial or total integration of SmartTools in other environments. It makes the addition of new software components in SmartTools easy. As a result of the modular architecture, we built a distributed instance of SmartTools which required minimal effort. Being open to the XML technologies offers all the features of SmartTools to any language defined with those technologies. But most of all, with its open architecture, SmartTools takes advantage of all the developments made around those technologies, like DOM, through the XML APIs. The fast development of SmartTools (which is a young project, one year old) validates our choices of being open and generic.The main goal of this tool is to provide help and support for designing software development environments for programming languages as well as application languages defined with XML technologies.

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The Eli system

Cited by 23 publications

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Language-Driven Engineering: From General-Purpose to Purpose-Specific Languages

Language-Driven Engineering: From General-Purpose to Purpose-Specific Languages

Implementation of visual languages using pattern‐based specifications

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