Generating Domain-Specific Visual Language Editors from High-level Tool Specifications

Authors:
John Grundy;John Hosking;Nianping Zhu;Na Liu
Affiliations:
University of Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, New Zealand;University of Auckland, New Zealand
Venue:
ASE '06 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Domain-specific visual language editors are useful in many areas of software engineering but developing such editors is challenging and time-consuming. We describe an approach to generating a wide range of these graphical editors for use as plug-ins to the Eclipse environment. Tool specifications from an existing meta-tool, Pounamu, are interpreted to produce dynamic, multi-view, multiuser Eclipse graphical editors. We describe the architecture and implementation of our approach, examples of its use realizing domain-specific modelling tools, and strengths and limitations of the approach.