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16th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'01)
Generating EDI Message Translations from Visual Specifications
San Diego, California
November 26-November 29
ISBN: 0-7695-1426-X
John Grundy, University of Auckland
Rick Mugridge, University of Auckland
John Hosking, University of Auckland
Paul Kendall, Orion Systems Ltd
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems are used in many domains to support inter-organisational information exchange. To get systems using different EDI message formats to communicate, complex message translations, where data must be transformed from one EDI message format into another, are required. We describe a visual language and support environment which greatly simplify the task of the systems integrator by using a domain-specific visual language to express data formats and format translations. Complex message translations are automated by an underlying transformation engine. We describe the motivation for this system, its key visual language and transformation engine features, a prototype environment, and experience translating it into a commercial product.
Index Terms:
domain-specific visual languages, message translation, visual environments, XML
Citation:
John Grundy, Rick Mugridge, John Hosking, Paul Kendall, "Generating EDI Message Translations from Visual Specifications," ase, pp.35, 16th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'01), 2001
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