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A comprehensive approach to privacy in the cloud-based Internet of Things

Language workbenches are tools that provide high-level mechanisms for the implementation of (domain-specific) languages. Language workbenches are an active area of research that also receives many contributions from industry. To compare and discuss existing language workbenches, the annual Language Workbench Challenge was launched in 2011. Each year, participants are challenged to realize a given domain-specific language with their workbenches as a basis for discussion and comparison. In this paper, we describe the state of the art of language workbenches as observed in the previous editions of the Language Workbench Challenge. In particular, we capture the design space of language workbenches in a feature model and show where in this design space the participants of the 2013 Language Workbench Challenge reside. We compare these workbenches based on a DSL for questionnaires that was realized in all workbenches.

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The State of the Art in Language Workbenches. Conclusions from the Language Workbench Challenge

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Evaluating and comparing language workbenches

We introduce AToMPM, an open-source framework for designing domain-specific modeling environments, performing model transformations, manipulating and managing models. It runs completely over the web, making it independent from any operating system, platform, or device it may execute on. AToMPM offers an online collaborative experience for modeling. Its unique architecture makes the framework flexible and completely customizable, given that AToMPM is modeled by itself, and external applications can be easily integrated. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBbdpmpwn6M

AToMPM: A Web-based Modeling Environment.

Mobile applications usually need to be provided for more than one operating system. Developing native apps separately for each platform is a laborious and expensive undertaking. Hence, cross-platform approaches have emerged, most of them based on Web technologies. While these enable developers to use a single code base for all platforms, resulting apps lack a native look & feel. This, however, is often desired by users and businesses. Furthermore, they have a low abstraction level. We propose MD2, an approach for model-driven cross-platform development of apps. With MD2, developers specify an app in a high-level (domain-specific) language designed for describing business apps succinctly. From this model, purely native apps for Android and iOS are automatically generated. MD2 was developed in close cooperation with industry partners and provides means to develop data-driven apps with a native look and feel. Apps can access the device hardware and interact with remote servers.

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Cross-platform model-driven development of mobile applications with md2

Whether there is an (emerging or legacy) Domain-Specific Language to increase the expressiveness of your coworkers or whether you are about to invent a new General Purpose Prgramming Language: Tool support that goes beyond a parser/compiler is essential to make other people adopt your language and to be more productive. Xtext is an award- winning framework to build such tooling.In this tutorial we explain how to define a language and a statically typed, EMF-based Abstract Syntax Tree using only a grammar. We then generate a parser, a serializer and a smart editor from it. The editor provides many features out-of-the-box, such as syntax highlighting, content-assist, folding, jump-to-declaration and reverse-reference lookup across multiple files. Then, it is shown how literally every as- pects of the language and its complementary tool support can be customized using Dependency Injection, especially how this can be done for linking, formatting and validation. As an outlook, we will demonstrate how to integrate a custom language with Java, how Xtext maintains a workspace-wide index of named elements and how to implement incremental code generation or attach an interpreter.

Xtext: implement your language faster than the quick and dirty way

During the last years, code generators and models have become increasingly popular tools to support software development processes in manyfold ways. At the same time, the emerging pervasiveness of domain-specific languages (DSLs) in this field has complemented the idea of raising the level of abstraction by introducing specialized view points of a certain problem space. In combination with a proper set of idioms at the target platform generation-based approaches allow for weaving generated parts of an application with handwritten enhancements and refinements over the whole application lifecycle.The mobile division of itemis AG has delivered an implementation of such a model-based solution for mobile devices that uses a DSL to completely describe the structure and be- havior of data-centric mobile applications. Its tool support reaches from static analysis over code navigation to compiler and simulator integration of the iPhone development platform.

Heiko Behrens

Papers

Xtext: implement your language faster than the quick and dirty way

MDSD for the iPhone: developing a domain-specific language and IDE tooling to produce real world applications for mobile devices