Generating domain-specific visual language editors from high-level tool specifications

Proceedings - 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 25-34

  Grundy, John ^a   Hosking, John ^a   Zhu, Nianping ^a   Liu, Na ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; GRAPHIC METHODS; METADATA; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

DOMAIN-SPECIFIC MODELLING TOOLS; MULTI-USER ECLIPSE GRAPHICAL EDITORS; VISUAL LANGUAGE EDITORS;

FILE EDITORS;

EID: 34547406625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2006.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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