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Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering table of contents

Long Beach, CA, USA

SESSION: Code generation table of contents

Pages: 134 - 143

Year of Publication: 2005

ISBN:1-59593-993-4

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Karsten Ehrig	Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Claudia Ermel	Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Stefan Hänsgen	Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Gabriele Taentzer	Technical University of Berlin, Germany

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Visual Languages (VLs) play an important role in software system development. Especially when looking at well-defined domains, a broad variety of domain specific visual languages are used for the development of new applications. These languages are typically developed specifically for a certain domain in a way that domain concepts occur as primitives in the language alphabet. Visual modeling environments are needed to support rapid development of domain-specific solutions.In this contribution we present a general approach for defining visual languages and for generating language-specific tool environments. The visual language definition is again given in a visual manner and precise enough to completely generate the visual environment. The underlying technology is Eclipse with its plug-in capabilities on the one hand, and formal graph transformation techniques on the other hand. More precisely, we present an Eclipse plug-in generating Java code for visual modeling plug-ins which can be directly executed in the Eclipse Runtime-Workbench.

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