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Title

Pounamu: a meta-tool for exploratory domain-specific visual language tool development

Author(s)

Zhu, Nianping;  Grundy, John;  Hosking, John;  Liu, Na;  Cao, Shuping;  Mehra, Akhil

Abstract

Domain-specific visual language tools have become important in many domains of software engineering and end user development. However building such tools is very challenging with a need for multiple views of information and multi-user support, the ability for users to change tool diagram and meta-model specifications while in use, and a need for an open architecture for tool integration. We describe Pounamu, a meta-tool for realising such visual design environments. We describe the motivation for Pounamu, its architecture and implementation and illustrate examples of domain-specific visual language tools that we have developed with Pounamu.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 80, no. 8 (2007), pp. 1390-1407

Publication year

2007

FOR Code(s)

0803 Computer Software;  0806 Information Systems

Keyword(s)

Domain-specific languages;  Meta-CASE;  Meta-tools;  Visual design environments

Publisher

Elsevier

ISSN

0164-1212

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2006.10.028

Copyright

Copyright © 2007 Elsevier. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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