SAFARI: a meta-tooling framework for generating language-specific IDE's

Authors:
Philippe Charles;Julian Dolby;Robert M. Fuhrer;Stanley M. Sutton, Jr.;Mandana Vaziri
Affiliations:
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY;IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY
Venue:
Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Getting a new programming language into the hands of users is still a huge undertaking. SAFARI is an Eclipse-based meta-tooling framework for generating language-specific IDEs that greatly accelerates that process. It exploits common themes and structures that recur in many languages and language tools. It supports the generation of language-dependent IDE services, while allowing developers to focus on the language-specific aspects of their environments rather than the surrounding IDE framework. SAFARI has been used to generate IDEs for several languages. These IDEs include such features as parser generation; editors with keyword highlighting, text folding, text completion, hyperlinking and so on; outline views, project building; and more.