What is round tripping?
On Feb 9, 6:30 pm, Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Barney Boisvert wrote:
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> > And yeah, modeling is kickass, though the tooling is still lagging. I
> > worked on a project that we did full roundtripping a couple years ago
> > and it was great, as long as you didn't need a scenario that the
> > tooling couldn't handle. Then you're stuck. ;) But that's
> > undoubtedly better now.
>
> Academically if you're into round tripping Krysztof Czarnecki is doing
> some really interesting work up at the U of Waterloo (or was in the
> summer of 2007 the last time we discussed it). I get the use cases of
> round tripping and even model generation from statements - especially
> in Java where you have stable API's with lots of calling code where
> patterns can be automatically discerned through a combination of
> static and dynamic analysis, but personally I prefer making the model
> the definitive artifact rather than the code - whenever possible.
> Check out the book from JP Tolvanen and Steve Kelly at MetaCase on
> DSLs for their take on 100% code gen.
>
> Re: gtooling, for the right use cases, MetaEdit+ is *really*
> interesting. And for anyone working in the Java/Eclipse world it's
> worth checking out what the openArchitectureWare guys have done. I
> took a tutorial on oAW at Code Gen this year and it's got pretty slick
> tooling for working with both visual and textual external DSLs and it
> makes ANTLR look like lex and yacc - it'll gen plugins for your
> editing your textual DSLs including constraint checking and code
> completion automatically just from a grammar and a set of constraints.
> If it wasn't EMF based it'd be perfect :-)
>
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>
> > cheers,
> > barneyb
>
> > --
> > Barney Boisvert
> > [email protected]
> >http://www.barneyb.com/
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