Supporting Variability with Late Semantic Adaptations of Domain-Specific Modeling Languages

Tom Dinkelaker (1) , Martin Monperrus (1) , Mira Mezini (1)

1 Software Technology Group [Darmstadt]

Meta-object protocols are used to open up the implementations of object-oriented general-purpose languages to support semantic variability. They enable performing application level semantic adaptations to the language even at runtime. However, such meta-object protocols are not available for domain specific-modeling languages. Also, existing approaches to implementing domain-specific modeling languages do not support semantic adaptations, where the application basically redefines specific parts of the language semantics. We propose a new approach for the implementation of domain-specific modeling languages that uses meta-objects and meta-object protocols to open up the implementation of domain-specific abstractions. This approach enables runtime semantic variability of the form of application-specific late semantic adaptations of domain-specific model-ing languages that depend on the runtime application context .

Mots clés: Domain-Specific Modeling Languages; Variability; Meta-Object Protocols; Semantic Adaptation

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

Tom Dinkelaker, Martin Monperrus, Mira Mezini. Supporting Variability with Late Semantic Adaptations of Domain-Specific Modeling Languages. Proceedings of the AOSD Workshops, 2010, Saint Malo, France. ⟨hal-01575352⟩