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Embedded typesafe domain specific languages for Java

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Jevgeni Kabanov,

Rein RaudjärvAuthors Info & Claims

PPPJ '08: Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java

Pages 189 - 197

https://doi.org/10.1145/1411732.1411758

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Projects like jMock and Hibernate Criteria Query introduced embedded DSLs into Java. We describe two case studies in which we develop embedded typesafe DSLs for building SQL queries and engineering Java bytecode. We proceed to extract several patterns useful for developing typesafe DSLs for arbitrary domains. Unlike most previous Java DSLs we find that mixing the Fluent Interface idiom with static functions, metadata and closures provides for a better user experience than pure method chaining. We also make very liberal use of the Java 5 Generics to improve the type safety properties of the DSLs.

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Embedded typesafe domain specific languages for Java
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types

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198 pages

ISBN:9781605582238

DOI:10.1145/1411732

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Luis Veiga
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
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Vasco Amaral
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

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