Engineering Tagging Languages for DSLs
Abstract
To keep a DSL clean, readable and reusable in different contexts, it is useful to define a separate tagging language. A tag model logically adds information to the tagged DSL model while technically keeping the artifacts separated. Using a generic tagging language leads to promiscuous tag models, whereas defining a target DSL-specific tag language has a high initial overhead. This paper presents a systematic approach to define a DSL-specific tag language and a corresponding schema language, combining the advantages of both worlds: (a) the tag language specifically fits to the DSL, (b) the artifacts are kept separated and enabling reuse with different tag decorations, (c) the tag language follows a defined type schema, and (d) systematic derivation considerably reduces the effort necessary to implement the tag language. An example shows that it can at least partially be realized by a generator and applied for any kind of DSL. Index Terms Software Engineering, Modeling, MDE, GSE
Cite
@article{arxiv.1606.05112,
title = {Engineering Tagging Languages for DSLs},
author = {Timo Greifenberg and Markus Look and Sebastian Roidl and Bernhard Rumpe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05112},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures, Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) 2015