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European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications

ECMFA 2012: Modelling Foundations and Applications pp 178–193Cite as

TexMo: A Multi-language Development Environment

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Abstract

Contemporary software systems contain a large number of artifacts expressed in multiple languages, ranging from domain-specific languages to general purpose languages. These artifacts are interrelated to form software systems. Existing development environments insufficiently support handling relations between artifacts in multiple languages.

This paper presents a taxonomy for multi-language development environments, organized according to language representation, representation of relations between languages, and types of these relations. Additionally, we present TexMo, a prototype of a multi-language development environment, which uses an explicit relation model and implements visualization, static checking, navigation, and refactoring of cross-language relations. We evaluate TexMo by applying it to development of a web-application, JTrac, and provide preliminary evidence of its feasibility by running user tests and interviews.

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  1. IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Rolf-Helge Pfeiffer & Andrzej Wąsowski

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  1. Universidad de Málaga, ETSI Informâtica, Campus de Teatinos, Bulevar Louis Pasteur 35, 29071, Málaga, Spain

    Antonio Vallecillo

  2. MetaCase, Ylistönmäentie 31, 40500, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Juha-Pekka Tolvanen

  3. Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Richard Petersens Plads, 2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Ekkart Kindler  & Harald Störrle  & 

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, YO10 5GH, York, United Kingdom

    Dimitris Kolovos

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Pfeiffer, RH., Wąsowski, A. (2012). TexMo: A Multi-language Development Environment. In: Vallecillo, A., Tolvanen, JP., Kindler, E., Störrle, H., Kolovos, D. (eds) Modelling Foundations and Applications. ECMFA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7349. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31491-9_15

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