MODIGEN : Model-Driven Generation of Graphical Editors in Eclipse
Markus Gerhart, Marko Boger · International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology · 2016
Domain-specific modeling is more and more understood as a comparable solution compared to classical software development.Textual domain-specific languages (DSLs) already have a massive impactin contrast tographical DSLs, they still have to show their full potential.The established textual DSLs are normally generated from a domain specific grammar or maybe other specific textual descriptions.And advantage of textual DSLs is thatthey can be development cost-efficient.In this paper, we describe asimilar approach for the creation of graphical DSLs from textual descriptions.We present a set of speciallydeveloped textual DSLs to fully describe graphical DSLs based on node and edge diagrams.These are, together with an EMF meta-model, the input for a generator that produces an eclipse-based graphical Editor.The entire project is available as open source under the name MoDiGen.