A DSL Toolkit for Deferring Architectural Decisions in DSL-Based Software Design
A number of mature toolkits and language workbenches for DSL-based design have been proposed, making DSL-based design attractive for many projects. These toolkits preselect many architectural decision options. However, in many cases it would be beneficial for DSL-based design to decide for the DSL’s architecture later on in a DSL project, once the requirements and the domain have been sufficiently understood. We propose a language and a number of DSLs for DSL-based design and development that combine important benefits of different DSL toolkits in a unique way. Our approach specifically targets at deferring architectural decisions in DSL-based design. As a consequence, the architect can choose, even late in a DSL project, for options such as whether to provide the DSL as one or more external or embedded DSLs and whether to use an explicit language model or not
Top- Zdun, Uwe
Category |
Journal Paper |
Divisions |
Software Architecture |
Subjects |
Software Engineering |
Journal or Publication Title |
Information and Software Technology |
ISSN |
0950-5849 |
Publisher |
Butterworth-Heinemann |
Place of Publication |
Newton, MA, USA |
Page Range |
pp. 733-748 |
Number |
No. 7 |
Volume |
Vol.52 |
Date |
2010 |
Official URL |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2010.03.004 |
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