Evolution of the WebDSL runtime: Reliability engineering of the WebDSL web programming language

Web applications are ideal for implementing information systems; they can organize and persist the data in a database, do not require installation on client machines, and can be instantly updated everywhere. However, web programming is complex due to its heterogeneous nature, causing web frameworks to suffer from insufficient or leaky...

IceDust: Incremental and eventual computation of derived values in persistent object graphs

Derived values are values calculated from base values. They can be expressed in object-oriented languages by means of getters calculating the derived value, and in relational or logic databases by means of (materialized) views. However, switching to a different calculation strategy (for example caching) in object-oriented programming requires...

A language independent task engine for incremental name and type analysis

This paper is a pre-print of: Guido H. Wachsmuth, Gabriel D.P. Konat, Vlad A. Vergu, Danny M. Groenewegen, Eelco Visser. A Language Independent Task Engine for Incremental Name and Type Analysis. In: Martin Erwig, Richard F. Paige, Eric Van Wyk, editors, Software Language Engineering, Sixth International Conference, SLE 2013, Indianapolis, USA,...

Static Consistency Checking of Web Applications with WebDSL

Modern web application development frameworks provide web application developers with highlevel abstractions to improve their productivity. However, their support for static verification of applications is limited. Inconsistencies in an application are often not detected statically, but appear as errors at run-time. The reports about these...

Integration of Data Validation and User Interface Concerns in a DSL for Web Applications

Data validation rules constitute the constraints that data input and processing must adhere to in addition to the structural constraints imposed by a data model. Web modeling tools do not make all types of data validation explicit in their models, hampering full code generation and model expressivity. Web application frameworks do not offer a...

Integration of data validation and user interface concerns in a DSL for web applications

Data validation rules constitute the constraints that data input and processing must adhere to in addition to the structural constraints imposed by a data model. Web modeling tools do not make all types of data validation explicit in their models, hampering full code generation and model expressivity. Web application frameworks do not offer a...

Integration of data validation and user interface concerns in a DSL for web applications

This paper is a pre-print of: Danny M. Groenewegen, Eelco Visser. Integration of Data Validation and User Interface Concerns in a DSL for Web Applications. In Mark G. J. van den Brand, Jeff Gray, editors, Software Language Engineering, Second International Conference, SLE 2009, Denver, USA, October, 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,...

Weaving Web Applications with WebDSL (Demonstration)

This paper is a pre-print of: Danny M. Groenewegen, and Eelco Visser. Weaving Web Applications with WebDSL (Demonstration). In: Gary T. Leavens (editor) Companion to the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programing, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2009). WebDSL is a domain-specific language for the development of web...

WebDSL: A Domain-Specific Language for Dynamic Web Applications

Preprint of paper published in: OOPSLA 2008 - ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, 19-23 October 2008; doi:10.1145/1449814.1449858 WebDSL is a domain-specific language for the implementation of dynamic web applications with a rich data model. It consists of a core language with constructs...

Declarative Access Control for WebDSL: Combining Language Integration and Separation of Concerns

Preprint of paper published in: ICWE 2008 - 8th International Conference on Web Engineering, 14-18 July 2008; doi:10.1109/ICWE.2008.15 In this paper, we present the extension of WebDSL, a domain-specific language for web application development, with abstractions for declarative definition of access control. The extension supports the definition...

When Frameworks Let You Down: Platform-Imposed Constraints on the Design and Evolution of Domain-Specific Languages

Preprint of paper published in: DSM 2008 - Proceedings of the 8th OOPSLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling, Nashville, USA, 19-20 October 2008

When Frameworks Let You Down: Platform-Imposed Constraints on the Design and Evolution of Domain-Specific Languages