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Classification of Concrete Textual Syntax Mapping Approaches

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Thomas Goldschmidt,

Steffen Becker,

Axel UhlAuthors Info & Claims

ECMDA-FA '08: Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Model Driven Architecture: Foundations and Applications

Pages 169 - 184

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69100-6_12

Published: 09 June 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Textual concrete syntaxes for models are beneficial for many reasons. They foster usability and productivity because of their fast editing style, their usage of error markers, autocompletion and quick fixes. Furthermore, they can easily be integrated into existing tools such as diff/merge or information interchange through e-mail, wikis or blogs. Several frameworks and tools from different communities for creating concrete textual syntaxes for models emerged during recent years. However, these approaches failed to provide a solution in general. Open issues are incremental parsing and model updating as well as partial and federated views. To determine the capabilities of existing approaches, we provide a classification schema, apply it to these approaches, and identify their deficiencies.

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