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The Eclipse Java Metamodel: Scaffolding software engineering research on Java projects with MDE techniques

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Java on the Eclipse IDE is a frequent choice for software development nowadays. Software Engineering researchers have built program analysis tools in that environment for several purposes. However, that requires a deep understanding of Eclipse internals, such as the Java AST. This paper discusses the feasibility of a metamodel-driven approach to scaffold the construction of such tools. Its core is the Eclipse Java Metamodel (EJMM), obtained through reverse engineering. The latter is instantiated with meta-objects representing the constructs of a given Java program. We then use OCL to traverse programs very easily. To validate the feasibility of our metamodel-driven approach to program analysis, we developed an Eclipse plug-in based on it, to support the metamodel-driven measurement (M2DM) approach.

Source: Repositório do ISCTE-IUL

DOI: 10.5220/0004715303920399

Authors: Pedro Janeiro Coimbra, Fernando Brito e Abreu

Institution: Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Language: English

Topic: Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1574337918

FWCI: 0.618

Cites: 10

Cited by: 2

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