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...

Generating Editors for Embedded Languages: Integrating SGLR into IMP

Preprint of paper published in: LDTA 2008: 8th Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications, 5 April 2008 Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) increase productivity by providing a rich user interface and rapid feedback for a specific language. Creating an editor for a specific language is not a trivial undertaking, and is a...

Integrated Language Definition Testing: Enabling Test-Driven Language Development

The reliability of compilers, interpreters, and development environments for programming languages is essential for effective software development and maintenance. They are often tested only as an afterthought. Languages with a smaller scope, such as domain-specific languages, often remain untested. General-purpose testing techniques and test...

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...

Software Development Environments on the Web: A Research Agenda

Preprint of paper published in: Onward! 2012 - Proceedings of the 11th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software, 19-26 October 2012; 10.1145/2384592.2384603 Software is rapidly moving from the desktop to theWeb. The Web provides a generic user interface that allows ubiquitous access, instant...

Encapsulating Software Platform Logic by Aspect-Oriented Programming: A Case Study in Using Aspects for Language Portability

Software platforms such as the Java Virtual Machine or the CLR .NET virtual machine have their own ecosystem of a core programming language or instruction set, libraries, and developer community. Programming languages can target multiple software platforms to increase interoperability or to boost performance. Introducing a new compiler backend...

Pure and declarative syntax definition: Paradise lost and regained

Syntax definitions are pervasive in modern software systems, and serve as the basis for language processing tools like parsers and compilers. Mainstream parser generators pose restrictions on syntax definitions that follow from their implementation algorithm. They hamper evolution, maintainability, and compositionality of syntax definitions. The...

Natural and Flexible Error Recovery for Generated Modular Language Environments

Author's version of the work published in: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 34 (4), 2012; doi:10.1145/2400676.2400678. Integrated development environments (IDEs) increase programmer productivity, providing rapid, interactive feedback based on the syntax and semantics of a language. Unlike conventional parsing...

Providing Rapid Feedback in Generated Modular Language Environments

This paper is a pre-print of: Providing Rapid Feedback in Generated Modular Language Environments. Adding Error Recovery to Scannerless Generalized-LR Parsing. In: Gary T. Leavens, editor, Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programing, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2009), ACM, 2009. Integrated...

A Pure Object-Oriented Embedding of Attribute Grammars

This paper is a pre-print of: Anthony M. Sloane, Lennart C. L. Kats, Eelco Visser. A Pure Object-Oriented Embedding of Attribute Grammars. In T. Ekman and J. Vinju, editors, Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications (LDTA’09), Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. York, United Kingdom, March...

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

The Spoofax language workbench rules for declarative specification of languages and IDEs

Spoofax is a language workbench for efficient, agile development of textual domain-specific languages with state-of-the-art IDE support. Spoofax integrates language processing techniques for parser generation, meta-programming, and IDE development into a single environment. It uses concise, declarative specifications for languages and IDE...

The Spoofax language workbench

Spoofax is a language workbench for efficient, agile development of textual domain-specific languages with state-of-the-art IDE support. It provides a comprehensive environment that integrates syntax definition, program transformation, code generation, and declarative specification of IDE components Preprint accepted for publication in SPLASH...

Declaratively Defining Domain-Specific Language Debuggers

Tool support is vital to the effectiveness of domain-specific languages. With language workbenches, domain-specific languages and their tool support can be generated from a combined, high-level specification. This paper shows how such a specification can be extended to describe a debugger for a language. To realize this, we introduce a meta...

Domain-Specific Languages for Composable Editor Plugins

This paper is a pre-print of: Lennart C. L. Kats, Karl T. Kalleberg, Eelco Visser. Domain-Specific Languages for Composable Editor Plugins. In T. Ekman and J. Vinju, editors, Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications (LDTA’09), Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. York, United Kingdom, March...