Preliminary design of a unified JML representation and software infrastructure
Robby, Patrice Chalin · 2009
As a Behavioral Interface Specification Language (BISL) for Java, the Java Modeling Language (JML) is tightly coupled to the base language it enhances. Up until Java 1.4, JML kept apace with the evolution of its base language. Java 5 and subsequent revisions have yet to be fully supported by JML tools. Recent efforts such as JML4 have been addressing this issue by providing an Eclipse-based tooling infrastructure. In its current form, JML4 has a fairly steep learning curve for developers wishing to contribute to or extend it. To address this issue and bring JML tools one step closer to a desired plug-in model, we propose a JML Intermediate Representation (JIR) and supporting software infrastructure for JML front-ends and back-ends.