Meta-Packages: Painless Domain Specific Languages
Abstract
Domain Specific Languages are used to provide a tailored modelling notation for a specific application domain. There are currently two main approaches to DSLs: standard notations that are tailored by adding simple properties; new notations that are designed from scratch. There are problems with both of these approaches which can be addressed by providing access to a small meta-language based on packages and classes. A meta-modelling approach based on meta-packages allows a wide range of DSLs to be defined in a standard way. The DSLs can be processed using standard object-based extension at the meta-level and existing tooling can easily be defined to adapt to the new languages. This paper introduces the concept of meta-packages and provides a simple example.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1506.03381,
title = {Meta-Packages: Painless Domain Specific Languages},
author = {Tony Clark},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.03381},
year = {2015}
}