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Implementing Tag-Driven Transformers with Tango

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Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools (ICSR 2004)

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Using explicit tags at the programming language level has been attracting a lot of attention recently with technologies like xDoclet [41] which automates EJB [30] related tasks, and .NET attributes [21] which are a vital part of the .NET framework [34]. However there are currently no systematic ways for adding and transforming tag-driven product line specific constructs. This results often in implementations which are not very modular and hence that are difficult to reuse.

In this paper we introduce Tango a specialized language for implementing source to source tag-driven transformers for object-based languages in a systematic way using several layers of abstraction. Tango operates on a fixed, language independent, object-based metamodel and divides the transformation strategy in several well-defined layers which makes it also possible to reuse lower level parts. Tango uses the so-called inner tags to communicate semantics between different transformer modules in a uniform way.

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  2. BigLever Software, Austin, TX, USA

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Cepa, V. (2004). Implementing Tag-Driven Transformers with Tango. In: Bosch, J., Krueger, C. (eds) Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools. ICSR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27799-6_25

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