Design and implementation of simple object description language
Marjan Mernik, Uroš Novak, Enis Avdičaušević, Viljem Zumer · 2001
In the paper a design and implementation of Simple Object Description Language SODL for automatic interface creation are presented. First, problem domain -- developing network applications and reasons for developing new domain-specific language are described. Since the cross network method calls slow down performance of our applications the solution was Tier to Tier Object Transport (TTOT). However, with this approach the network application development time has been increased. To enhance our productivity a new domain-specific SODL language has been designed. Syntax and semantics of SODL language are formally defined in an incremental way by special kind of attribute grammars that allows extensions and modifications in an easy way. From formal specifications SODL compiler is automatically generated using compiler/interpreter generator tool LISA. Finally, the benefits of our approach have been discussed. 1.