TY - GEN
T1 - Attribute grammar-based language extensions for java
AU - Van Wyk, Eric
AU - Krishnan, Lijesh
AU - Bodin, Derek
AU - Schwerdfeger, August
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This paper describes the ableJ extensible language framework, a tool that allows one to create new domain-adapted languages by importing domain-specific language extensions into an extensible implementation of Java 1.4. Language extensions may define the syntax, semantic analysis, and optimizations of new language constructs. Java and the language extensions are specified as higher-order attribute grammars. We describe several language extensions and their implementation in the framework. For example, one extension embeds the SQL database query language into Java and statically checks for syntax and type errors in SQL queries. The tool supports the modular specification of composable language extensions so that programmers can import into Java the unique set of extensions that they desire. When extensions follow certain restrictions, they can be composed without requiring any implementation-level knowledge of the language extensions. The tools automatically compose the selected extensions and the Java host language specification.
AB - This paper describes the ableJ extensible language framework, a tool that allows one to create new domain-adapted languages by importing domain-specific language extensions into an extensible implementation of Java 1.4. Language extensions may define the syntax, semantic analysis, and optimizations of new language constructs. Java and the language extensions are specified as higher-order attribute grammars. We describe several language extensions and their implementation in the framework. For example, one extension embeds the SQL database query language into Java and statically checks for syntax and type errors in SQL queries. The tool supports the modular specification of composable language extensions so that programmers can import into Java the unique set of extensions that they desire. When extensions follow certain restrictions, they can be composed without requiring any implementation-level knowledge of the language extensions. The tools automatically compose the selected extensions and the Java host language specification.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-73589-2_27
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-73589-2_27
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38149076049
SN - 9783540735885
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 575
EP - 599
BT - ECOOP 2007 - Object-Oriented Programming - 21st European Conference, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2007
Y2 - 30 July 2007 through 3 August 2007
ER -