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A Domain Specific Language for Extracting Models in Software Modernization

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Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA 2009)

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Model-Driven Engineering techniques can be used both to create new software and to modernize existing software systems. Model-Driven Software Modernization requires a first step for the extraction of models. Most modernization scenarios involve dealing with the GPL source code of the existing system. Techniques and tools providing efficient means to extract models from source code are therefore needed.

In this paper, we analyze the difficulties encountered when using the existing approaches and we propose a language, called Gra2MoL, which is especially tailored to address the problem of model extraction. This provides a powerful query language for concrete syntax trees, and mappings between source grammar elements and target metamodel elements are expressed by rules similar to those found in model transformation languages. Moreover, the approach also allows reusing existing grammars.

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  1. University of Murcia, Spain

    Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo & Jesús García Molina

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, United Kingdom

    Richard F. Paige

  2. IBM India Research Laboratory, Bangalore, India

    Alan Hartman

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Arend Rensink

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Cánovas Izquierdo, J.L., Molina, J.G. (2009). A Domain Specific Language for Extracting Models in Software Modernization. In: Paige, R.F., Hartman, A., Rensink, A. (eds) Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications. ECMDA-FA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5562. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02674-4_7

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