Eclipse Modeling Project

Eclipse Modeling Project

Achieve Breakthrough Productivity and Quality with MDD and Eclipse-Based DSLs Domain-specific languages (DSLs) and model-driven development (MDD) offer software engineers powerful new ways to improve productivity, enhance quality, and insulate systems from rapid technological change. Now, there’s a pragmatic, start-to-finish guide to creating DSLs and using MDD techniques with the powerful open source Eclipse platform. In Eclipse Modeling Project, Richard C. Gronback illuminates both the principles and techniques software professionals need to master, offering insights that will be invaluable to developers working with any tool or platform. As coleader of the Eclipse Modeling Project, Gronback is singularly well-positioned to demonstrate DSLs and MDD at work in Eclipse. Gronback systematically introduces each of the Eclipse technologies that can be used in DSL and MDD development. Throughout, he introduces key concepts and technologies in the context of a complete worked example and presents new best practices and never-before published techniques. He also covers Eclipse projects discussed in no other book, including Query/View/Transformation (QVT) and the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)—a project the author personally leads. Eclipse Modeling Project gives software practitioners all the knowledge they need to explore the remarkable potential of DSLs and MDD—and includes coverage of Why a model-based approach enables the rapid customization of high-quality solutions within the product line paradigm How the Eclipse Modeling Project’s capabilities can be used to efficiently create new DSLs Powerful techniques for developing DSL abstract syntax, graphical notation, and textual syntax How to build Model-to-Model (M2M) and Model-to-Text (M2T) transformations—including a powerful new M2M implementation of the Object Management Group’s QVT Operational Mapping Language (OML) Efficiently packaging and deploying DSLs with Eclipse Complete reference sections for the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF), GMF runtime and tooling, QVT OML, Xpand, and more

Eclipse Modeling Project

Eclipse Modeling Project

the first end-to-end guide to Domain-Specific Language (DSL) and Model-Driven Development (MDD) with Eclipse. • • Shows software developers how to leverage the Eclipse open source platform to gain the state-of-the-art productivity and quality benefits of DSLs and MDD. • Thoroughly covers the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), As well as Eclipse projects covered in no other book, including GMF and QVT. • Includes comprehensive examples and code readers can learn from -- and apply in their own projects. Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) and model-driven development (MDD) offer software engineers powerful new ways to improve productivity, enhance quality, and insulate systems from rapid technological change. Now, For the first time, there's a pragmatic, start-to-finish guide to creating DSLs and using MDD techniques with Eclipse. In Eclipse Modeling Project, Richard Gronback illuminates both the principles and techniques software professionals need to master - offering insights that will be invaluable to developers working with any tool or platform. As co-leader of Eclipse's Modeling project, and project lead for Eclipse's Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF), Gronback is singularly well-positioned to demonstrate DSLs and MDD at work in Eclipse. Gronback systematically introduces each of the Eclipse technologies that can be used in DSL and MDD development, including Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), Model-to-Text Transformation (M2T), and many more. In particular, he presents new best practices for using the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF), and neverbefore- published techniques for Model-to-Model Transformation (M2M) utilizing the Eclipse Query/View/Transformation component. Throughout, Gronback introduces key concepts and technologies in the context of a start-to-finish worked example. The result is a book that any software practitioner can use to explore the remarkable potential of DSLs and MDD - and to start using these approaches in real-world projects.