Exploiting Meta-Model Structures in the Generation of Xtext Editors
Proceeding (redaktörskap), 2023

When generating textual editors for large and highly structured meta-models, it is possible to extend Xtext’s generator capabilities and the default implementations it provides. These extensions provide additional features such as formatters and more precise scoping for cross-references. However, for large metamodels in particular, the realization of such extensions typically is a time-consuming, awkward, and repetitive task. For some of these tasks, we motivate, present, and discuss in this position paper automatic solutions that exploit the structure of the underlying metamodel. Furthermore, we demonstrate how we used them in the development of a textual editor for EATXT, a textual concrete syntax for the automotive architecture description language EAST-ADL. This work in progress contributes to our larger goal of building a language workbench for blended modelling.

textual modelling

Xtext

modelling environments When

modelling language engineering

Redaktör

Jörg Holtmann

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Jan-Philipp Steghöfer

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Weixing Zhang

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

11th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering
Lisbon, Portugal,

Ämneskategorier

Annan data- och informationsvetenskap

Inbäddad systemteknik

Datavetenskap (datalogi)

DOI

10.5220/0000170800003402

ISBN

978-989-758-633-0

Utgivare

SciTePress Digital Library

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Skapat

2023-02-22