A framework for visual notation exchange

Authors:
Hermann Stoeckle;John Grundy;John Hosking
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, A ...;Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Venue:
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

A wide range of software tools provide software engineers with different views (static and dynamic) of software systems. Much recent work has focused on software information model exchange. However, most software tools lack support for exchange of information about visualisation notations (both definitions of notations and instances of them). Some basic converters have been developed to support the exchange of notation information between software tools but almost all are custom-built to support specific notations and difficult to maintain. We describe the development of several notation exchange converters for tools supporting software architecture notations. This has lead to the development of a unified converter generator framework for notation exchange.