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In model-driven engineering (MDE), software development is centred around a formal description (model) of the proposed software system, and other software artifacts are derived directly from the model. We are investigating semantically configurable MDE, in which specifiers are able to configure the semantics of their models. The goal of this work is to provide a modelling environment that offers flexible, configurable modelling notations, so that specifiers are better able to represent their ideas, and yet still provides the types of analysis tools and code generators normally associated with model-driven engineering. In this paper, we present a semantically configurable code-generator generator, which creates a Java-code generator for a modelling notation given the notation’s semantics expressed as a set of parameter values. We are able to simulate multiple different model-based code generators, though at present the performance of our generated code is about an order of magnitude slower than that produced by commercial-grade generators.
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Prout, A., Atlee, J.M., Day, N.A., Shaker, P. (2008). Semantically Configurable Code Generation. In: Czarnecki, K., Ober, I., Bruel, JM., Uhl, A., Völter, M. (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87875-9_49
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