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Eclipse Modeling Project: A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Toolkit
- By Richard C. Gronback
- Published Mar 6, 2009 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Eclipse Series series.
- Copyright 2009
- Dimensions: 7x9-1/4
- Pages: 736
- Edition: 1st
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- ISBN-10: 0-321-53407-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-53407-1
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- ISBN-10: 0-321-63517-5
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-63517-4
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Product Author Bios
Richard Gronback is the chief scientist for modeling products at Borland Software Corporation, where he manages both open source and commercial product development. Richard represents Borland on the Eclipse Board of Directors and Planning and Architecture Councils, co-leads the Modeling project Project Management Committee (PMC), and leads the GMF and Amalgam projects. Richard holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Connecticut. He was a reactor operator in the U.S. Navy before entering his current career in software.
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
Foreword xix
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
About the Author xxv
Part I: Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Introduction 3
Chapter 2: Modeling Project as a DSL Toolkit 17
Part II: Developing Domain-Specific Languages 27
Chapter 3: Developing a DSL Abstract Syntax 29
Chapter 4: Developing a DSL Graphical Notation 55
Chapter 5: Developing a DSL Textual Syntax 227
Chapter 6: Developing Model-to-Model Transformations 231
Chapter 7: Developing Model-to-Text Transformations 277
Chapter 8: DSL Packaging and Deployment 303
Part III: Reference 315
Chapter 9: Graphical Editing Framework 317
Chapter 10: Graphical Modeling Framework Runtime 353
Chapter 11: Graphical Modeling Framework Tooling 503
Chapter 12: Graphical Modeling Framework FAQs 545
Chapter 13: Query/View/Transformation Operational Mapping Language 549
Chapter 14: Xpand Template Language 605
Part IV: Appendixes 651
Appendix A: Graphical Modeling Framework Key Bindings 653
Appendix B: Model-Driven Architecture at Eclipse 661
References 671
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
This book may not deliver what you want, but its out there, By
This review is from: Eclipse Modeling Project: A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Toolkit (Paperback)
I need to give a bit of balance to the previous reviews. I basically like the book, but it is a mixed bag and could be a lot better in certain areas. If you expect a start to finish tutorial, you will be disappointed because some background material is presented out of order and you really should read some of his cited references beforehand. For example he discusses the dynamic instance capability in EMF using a mindmap DSL, but doesn't introduce the mindmap DSL itself, until a little later. Also, it will help to have some familiarity with EMF as the coverage in chapter 3 can be followed but is a bit thin and EMF and ecore are purposefully not intended to duplicate the EMF book. The book's usefulness to you will depend upon where you are in MDD and how you want to use MDD and DSLs. The eclipse modeling project is and will undergo rapid change and this book appears somewhat rushed and rough in spots. His second edition when it comes out should be really better organizationally as the...
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
from a diagram of a domain model to autogenerated code, By
This review is from: Eclipse Modeling Project: A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Toolkit (Paperback)
If you use Eclipse, you probably know it as a neat Integrated Development Environment for java, where perhaps you manually write all the java code. This book shows a different take on Eclipse; a much higher level of sophistication. Basically, it shows how to go from a diagram of a set of related classes to autogenerated java code. Developers have put a massive amount of effort into fleshing out this ability; something well documented by the book.The starting diagram is a domain model. It models a scenario that you are interested in. You might think that an alternative approach is to use Backus Naur Formalism to define the same information. But the book deprecates BNF. Decades-long experience with BNF suggests that it lacks expressive power, and that perhaps the pure text nature of a BNF instantiation is too hard to grasp relationships between objects. Instead, the expression of a domain model in terms of what is roughly [or exactly] a UML diagram gives visuals that people... Read more
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Book seems out of date w.r.t. Eclipse 3.6 Helios and The Eclipse Modeling Project, By Zozobra (Santa Fe, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eclipse Modeling Project: A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Toolkit (Paperback)
I am about 1/3 through working the tutorials in this book and really (unfortunately) finding that it is out of date with Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) and the Modeling Project. For example, the tutorials walk you through setting up projects from the Eclipse Amalgam DSL Project and that does not seem to exist anymore (even though the modeling components do in their own sub-projects under the overarching Eclipse Modeling Project). I hope their is a new edition of this book though since the author really does do a great job of explaining the practical aspects of EMF and how to integrate with GMF, XText, OCL, and other modeling project components. I really need some hands on tutorials on these.
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Developing a DSL Abstract Syntax with the Eclipse Modeling Framework
Table of Contents
Foreword xix
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
About the Author xxv
Part I: Introduction 1
Chapter 1: Introduction 3
Chapter 2: Modeling Project as a DSL Toolkit 17
Part II: Developing Domain-Specific Languages 27
Chapter 3: Developing a DSL Abstract Syntax 29
Chapter 4: Developing a DSL Graphical Notation 55
Chapter 5: Developing a DSL Textual Syntax 227
Chapter 6: Developing Model-to-Model Transformations 231
Chapter 7: Developing Model-to-Text Transformations 277
Chapter 8: DSL Packaging and Deployment 303
Part III: Reference 315
Chapter 9: Graphical Editing Framework 317
Chapter 10: Graphical Modeling Framework Runtime 353
Chapter 11: Graphical Modeling Framework Tooling 503
Chapter 12: Graphical Modeling Framework FAQs 545
Chapter 13: Query/View/Transformation Operational Mapping Language 549
Chapter 14: Xpand Template Language 605
Part IV: Appendixes 651
Appendix A: Graphical Modeling Framework Key Bindings 653
Appendix B: Model-Driven Architecture at Eclipse 661
References 671
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