A manifesto for semantic model differencing
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Models in software engineering
ADDiff: semantic differencing for activity diagrams
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
CDDiff: semantic differencing for class diagrams
Proceedings of the 25th European conference on Object-oriented programming
Proceedings of the 25th European conference on Object-oriented programming
Semantically configurable consistency analysis for class and object diagrams
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems
CD2Alloy: class diagrams analysis using alloy revisited
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems
A DSL for writing type systems for Xtext languages
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java
Xbase: implementing domain-specific languages for Java
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering
Feature-oriented language families: a case study
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems
TraitRecordJ: A programming language with traits and records
Science of Computer Programming
Implementing Java-like languages in Xtext with Xsemantics
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Towards model and language composition
Proceedings of the First Workshop on the Globalization of Domain Specific Languages
Synthesis of component and connector models from crosscutting structural views
Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
Modeling cyber-physical systems: model-driven specification of energy efficient buildings
Proceedings of the Modelling of the Physical World Workshop
Engineering delta modeling languages
Proceedings of the 17th International Software Product Line Conference
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Domain specific languages (DSLs) are increasingly used today. Coping with complex language definitions, evolving them in a structured way, and ensuring their error freeness are the main challenges of DSL design and implementation. The use of modular language definitions and composition operators are therefore inevitable in the independent development of language components. In this article, we discuss these arising issues by describing a framework for the compositional development of textual DSLs and their supporting tools. We use a redundance-free definition of a readable concrete syntax and a comprehensible abstract syntax as both representations significantly overlap in their structure. For enhancing the usability of the abstract syntax, we added concepts like associations and inheritance to a grammar-based definition in order to build up arbitrary graphs (as known from metamodeling). Two modularity concepts, grammar inheritance and embedding, are discussed. They permit compositional language definition and thus simplify the extension of languages based on already existing ones. We demonstrate that compositional engineering of new languages is a useful concept when project-individual DSLs with appropriate tool support are defined.