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ECLIPSE MODELING PROJECT
A Domain-Specific Language
Toolkit
Richard C. Gronback
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Gronback, Richard C.
Eclipse modeling project : a domain-specific language (DSL) toolkit / Richard C.
Gronback.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-321-53407-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Computer software—Development.
2. Eclipse (Electronic resource) 3. Programming languages (Electronic computers)
I. Title.
QA76.76.D47G785 2009
005.1—dc22
2008050813
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Dedicated to my father, Philip Richard Gronback, Sr.
November 2, 1948–December 8, 1997
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Contents
Foreword
xix
Preface
xxi
Acknowledgments
xxiii
About the Author
xxv
Part I
❍
Introduction
1
Chapter 1
Introduction
3
1.1 About Modeling
3
1.2 Domain-Specific Languages
5
1.2.1 Why Develop a DSL?
6
1.3 Model-Driven Software Development
7
1.4 Software Product Lines and Factories
7
1.5 The Eclipse Modeling Project
8
1.5.1 Abstract Syntax Development
10
1.5.2 Concrete Syntax Development
12
1.5.3 Model Transformation
12
1.5.4 Model Development Tools (MDT)
13
1.5.5 Generative Modeling Technologies
15
1.5.6 Amalgamation
15
1.5.7 Project Interaction
15
1.6 Summary
16
Chapter 2
Modeling Project as a DSL Toolkit
17
2.1 Installation
20
2.2 The Sample Projects
20
2.3 Summary
26
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