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International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology - (ICCGI'06)
MetaCET: An Object Oriented Tool for Language Design
Bucharest, Romania
August 01-August 03
ISBN: 0-7695-2690-X
Francisco Gort?zar, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Micael Gallego, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Abraham Duarte, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Programming Language design is one of the most difficult tasks in software design. Nowadays, is an open research area, with a great impact on the further development of the Computer Science. In this paper, we present MetaCET, a new approach for language design. It allows developers to model and design a target language by means of Java.

When modeling, the first step consists of giving a high level language design by a diagram, for instance, UML. Then, in MetaCET, the model is rewritten into Java classes. Inside these Java classes the syntax (or target language textual representation) is specified as metadata (standard Java annotations). Finally, MetaCET automatically generates a Java

Citation:
Francisco Gort?zar, Micael Gallego, Abraham Duarte, "MetaCET: An Object Oriented Tool for Language Design," iccgi, pp.29, International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology - (ICCGI'06), 2006
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