Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
A refactoring tool for Smalltalk
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue object-oriented software evolution and re-engineering
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Cross-language support mechanisms significantly aid software development
MODELS'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
What programmers say about refactoring tools?: an empirical investigation of stack overflow
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM workshop on Workshop on refactoring tools
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Many automated refactoring tools only work with one programming language. However, most complex programs rely on polyglot programming --- entailing the use of different programming languages, libraries and frameworks. While finding a general solution for extending refactoring across multiple languages is hard, it is simple and possible to support automated refactorings for some common cases that programmers already encounter in their programs today. Supporting those common cases is essential in encouraging programmers to make changes that would increase the understandability and maintainability of their programs. This paper is a step toward encouraging tool developers to think about supporting multi-language refactorings. We present our tool for supporting multi-language refactorings from studying the interactions between Java and XML configuration files. Our tool extends Rename Refactoring support across three different popular Java frameworks: Struts, Hibernate and Spring.