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Round-trip engineering using framework-specific modeling languages

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This research explores the synergies between object-oriented application frameworks and model-driven engineering. We propose Framework-Specific Modeling Languages (FSMLs) which are domain-specific modeling languages designed for areas of concern to object-oriented frameworks. A framework-specific model expressed using an FSML describes how an application built on top of a framework is using the framework. The semantics of FSMLs can be precisely defined based on framework-completion knowledge: the prescribed steps and rules of writing the framework-completion code for the given framework. The mapping between the abstract syntax of an FSML and its base framework's API enables automatic forward-, reverse-, and round-trip engineering of thecompletion code.

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OOPSLA '07: Companion to the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications companion
October 2007
241 pages
ISBN:9781595938657
DOI:10.1145/1297846
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  1. FSMLs
  2. framework-specific modeling
  3. framework-specific modeling languages
  4. object-oriented frameworks
  5. round-trip engineering

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