Eating Your Own Dog Food: WebDSL Case Studies to Improve Academic Workflows

SDF, Stratego and Spoofax provide a platform for development of domain-specific programming languages. On this platform, the WebDSL project started out as a case study in language engineering, and grew into a reliable tool for rapid prototyping and continuous development of web applications. Our team led by Eelco Visser develops and operates...

Conf Researchr: A Domain-Specific Content Management System for Managing Large Conference Websites

Conferences are great opportunities for sharing research, debating solutions, and networking. For the organizing committee there is a considerable deal of complexity and effort required to provide attendees and organizers with ways to find and manage programs, sessions, papers, tracks, talks, and authors. Eelco Visser found an opportunity to...

Modernizing the WebDSL Front-End: A Case Study in SDF3 and Statix

The front-end of a compiler reads the source program and performs analyses such as type checking. The goal of the front-end is to check for the presence of syntactic and semantic errors before the program is passed to the back-end of the compiler for tasks such as optimization and code generation.<br/><br/>WebDSL is a domain-specific language...

Abstractions for Asynchronous User Interfaces in Web Applications

The web has become a popular target platform for applications. The differences in user experience between browser based applications and desktop applications have become smaller due to the enriched user experience enabled by the Ajax technique. Nevertheless, developing Ajax based internet applications is a complex task and requires the developer...

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...

Declarative Access Control for WebDSL

This thesis describes the extension of WebDSL, a domain-specific language for web application development, with abstractions for declarative access control. The extension supports the definition of a wide range of access control policies concisely and transparently as a separate concern. Access is governed to the various resources in a WebDSL...