Enhancing Xtext for General Purpose Languages.
Adolfo Sánchez-Barbudo Herrera · 2014
Abstract. Xtext is a popular language workbench conceived to support development of tooling (e.g. parsers and editors) for textual languages. Although Xtext offers strong support for source code generation when building tooling for Domain Specific Languages (DSL), the amount of hand-written source code required to give support to complex General Purpose Languages (GPL) is still significant. This research investigates techniques for reducing the amount of hand-written source code for sup-porting GPLs, via the development of new DSLs from which source code can be automatically generated. In particular, these techniques will be researched in the context of the OCL and QVT Operational languages. 1