Achieve Breakthrough Productivity and Quality with MDD and Eclipse‎-Based DSLs Domain‎-specific languages ‎(‎DSLs‎)‎ and model‎-driven development ‎(‎MDD‎)‎ offer software engineers powerful new ways to improve productivity‎,‎ enhance quality‎,‎ and insulate systems from rapid technological change‎.‎ Now‎,‎ there‎'‎s a pragmatic‎,‎ start‎-to‎-finish guide to creating DSLs and using MDD techniques with the powerful open source Eclipse platform‎.‎ In Eclipse Modeling Project‎,‎ Richard C‎.‎ Gronback illuminates both the principles and techniques software professionals need to master‎,‎ offering insights that will be invaluable to developers working with any tool or platform‎.‎ As coleader of the Eclipse Modeling Project‎,‎ Gronback is singularly well‎-positioned to demonstrate DSLs and MDD at work in Eclipse‎.‎ Gronback systematically introduces each of the Eclipse technologies that can be used in DSL and MDD development‎.‎ Throughout‎,‎ he introduces key concepts and technologies in the context of a complete worked example and presents new best practices and never‎-before published techniques‎.‎ He also covers Eclipse projects discussed in no other book‎,‎ including Query/View/Transformation ‎(‎QVT‎)‎ and the Graphical Modeling Framework ‎(‎GMF‎)‎‎-a project the author personally leads‎.‎ Eclipse Modeling Project gives software practitioners all the knowledge they need to explore the remarkable potential of DSLs and MDD‎-and includes coverage of * Why a model‎-based approach enables the rapid customization of high‎-quality solutions within the product line paradigm * How the Eclipse Modeling Project‎'‎s capabilities can be used to efficiently create new DSLs * Powerful techniques for developing DSL abstract syntax‎,‎ graphical notation‎,‎ and textual syntax * How to build Model‎-to‎-Model ‎(‎M2M‎)‎ and Model‎-to‎-Text ‎(‎M2T‎)‎ transformations‎-including a powerful new M2M implementation of the Object Management Group‎'‎s QVT Operational Mapping Language ‎(‎OML‎)‎* Efficiently packaging and deploying DSLs with Eclipse* Complete reference sections for the Graphical Editing Framework ‎(‎GEF‎)‎‎,‎ GMF runtime and tooling‎,‎ QVT OML‎,‎ Xpand‎,‎ and more Foreword xix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxiii About the Author xxv Part I‎:‎ Introduction 1 Chapter 1‎:‎ Introduction 3 Chapter 2‎:‎ Modeling Project as a DSL Toolkit 17 Part II‎:‎ Developing Domain‎-Specific Languages 27 Chapter 3‎:‎ Developing a DSL Abstract Syntax 29 Chapter 4‎:‎ Developing a DSL Graphical Notation 55 Chapter 5‎:‎ Developing a DSL Textual Syntax 227 Chapter 6‎:‎ Developing Model‎-to‎-Model Transformations 231 Chapter 7‎:‎ Developing Model‎-to‎-Text Transformations 277 Chapter 8‎:‎ DSL Packaging and Deployment 303 Part III‎:‎ Reference 315 Chapter 9‎:‎ Graphical Editing Framework 317 Chapter 10‎:‎ Graphical Modeling Framework Runtime 353 Chapter 11‎:‎ Graphical Modeling Framework Tooling 503 Chapter 12‎:‎ Graphical Modeling Framework FAQs 545 Chapter 13‎:‎ Query/View/Transformation Operational Mapping Language 549 Chapter 14‎:‎ Xpand Template Language 605 Part IV‎:‎ Appendixes 651 Appendix A‎:‎ Graphical Modeling Framework Key Bindings 653 Appendix B‎:‎ Model‎-Driven Architecture at Eclipse 661 References 671