Software systems need to evolve, and systems built using model-driven approaches are no
exception. What complicates model-driven engineering is that it requires multiple …

Stratego/XT is a language and toolset for program transformation. The Stratego language
provides rewrite rules for expressing basic transformations, programmable rewriting …

Various implementation approaches for developing a domain-specific language are
available in literature. There are certain common beliefs about the advantages …

Modularization and composition of languages and their IDEs is an important building block
for working efficiently with domain-specific languages. Traditionally this has been a …

In language-oriented programming and modeling, software developers are largely
concerned with the definition of domain-specific languages (DSLs) and their composition …

Programming languages often include specialized syntax for common datatypes (eg lists)
and some also build in support for specific specialized datatypes (eg regular expressions) …

Software written in one language often needs to construct sentences in another language,
such as SQL queries, XML output, or shell command invocations. This is almost always …

Spoon is a Java-based program analysis and transformation tool for compile-time
annotation processing. It combines compile-time reflection with a pure Java template …

The theory of context-free languages is well-understood and context-free parsers can be
used as off-the-shelf tools in practice. In particular, to use a context-free parser framework, a …

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is attracting attention from both research and industry,
as illustrated by the ever-growing popularity of AspectJ, the de facto standard AOP extension …