Construction and Evolution of Code Generators
Subtitle: A Model-Driven and Service-Oriented Approach
By: by Sven Jörges
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science -- 7747
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9783642361272
Subjects: Information systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Computer science; Software engineering; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters
Description: Automatic code generation is an essential cornerstone of model-driven approaches to software development. Currently, lots of techniques are available that support the specification and implementation of code generators, such as engines based on templates or rule-based transformations. All those techniques have in common that code generators are either directly programmed or described by means of textual specifications. This monograph presents Genesys, a general approach, which advocates the graphical development of code generators for arbitrary source and target languages, on the basis of models and services. In particular, it is designed to support incremental language development on arbitrary metalevels. The use of models allows building code generators in a truly platform-independent and domain-specific way. Furthermore, models are amenable to formal verification methods such as model checking, which increase the reliability and robustness of the code generators. Services enable the reuse and integration of existing code generation frameworks and tools regardless of their complexity, and at the same time manifest as easy-to-use building blocks which facilitate agile development through quick interchangeability. Both, models and services, are reusable and thus form a growing repository for the fast creation and evolution of code generators.
Table of contents: title: <p>The state of the art in code generation; title: Extreme model-driven development and jABC; title: The Genesys framework; title: Code generators for jABC; title: Verification and validation of code generators; title: Domain-specific code generators for EMF; title: Service-oriented combination of code generation frameworks.</p>.