SmartTools: A Development Environment Generator based on XML Technologies

Isabelle Attali (1, 2) , Carine Courbis (1, 2) , Pascal Degenne (1, 2) , Alexandre Fau (1, 2) , Joël Fillon (1, 2) , Didier Parigot (1, 2) , Claude Pasquier (3, 1, 2) , Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (4, 1, 2)

1 OASIS - Active objects, semantics, Internet and security
2 CRISAM - Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée
3 Schlumberger
4 DISI - Department of Computer Science and Engineering [Bologna]

SmartTools is a development environment generator that definitions of the manipulated languages. It can accept Doc- provides a structure editor and semantic tools as main fea- ument Type Definitions (DTDs) as AST definitions to define tures. SmartTools is easy to use, thanks to its graphical user languages. When a DTD is imported, it automatically pro- interface. Being based on Java and XML technologies of- duces a set of Java classes that extend a DOM implementa- fers all the features of SmartTools to any defined language. tion for each operator. It offers a structure editing environ- The main goal of this tool is to provide help and support ment for the language defined by this DTD for free. During for designing software development environments for pro- editing, the system guarantees that XML documents remain gramming languages as well as domain-specific languages valid and well-formed. When additional information is pro- defined with XML technologies.

Mots clés: Language-based systems; Software development; Program Transformation; Interactive environment

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Isabelle Attali, Carine Courbis, Pascal Degenne, Alexandre Fau, Joël Fillon, et al.. SmartTools: A Development Environment Generator based on XML Technologies. ICSE Workshop on XML Technologies and Software Engineering, May 2001, Toronto, Canada. ⟨hal-01151517⟩