The step-by-step guide to creating program generators with Java and XML. Breakthrough Java/XML techniques for creating program generators, including detailed examples and real-world guidelines Domain engineering techniques for improving software development productivity CD-ROM with examples, working code, and relevant XML specifications "XML isn't just for data any more. Now you can use XML to describe the programs you need, then write a Java program template to generate them automatically. This book shows you how." --Charles F. Goldfarb Using Java and XML, you can now easily create "wizard-like" program generators that automate much of the work of software development(and deliver significant productivity improvements. In this book, former Bell Laboratories Distinguished Staff Member J. Craig Cleaveland shows you how to do it. Using extensive practical examples, "Program Generators with XML and Java" walks you through every step: Identifying off-the-shelf tools for quickly building program generators Domain Analysis: determining the terminology, boundaries, commonalities, and variabilities of software families Domain Implementation: processes and tools for efficiently generating customized software Accounting for run-time and compile-time variabilities Using XML documents as program specifications, and using the DOM and SAX APIs to read and analyze them Using JavaServer Pages and XPath/XSLT to generate customized software The role of reusable architectures and components, including JavaBeans Chances are, you're already using automated GUI builders, database application generators, and other code generation "wizards." Now, with "Program Generators with XML and Java," you canextend the advantages of code generation throughout your own custom applications and get to market faster, with greater reliability and lower costs.

As a result of the open-source movement there is now a great deal of reusable software available in the public domain. This offers significant functionality that commercial software vendors can use in their software projects. Open-source approaches to software development have illustrated that complex, mission critical software can be developed by distributed teams of developers sharing a common goal. Commercial software vendors have an opportunity to both learn from the op- source community as well as leverage that knowledge for the benefit of its commercial clients. Nonetheless, the open-source movement is a diverse collection of ideas, knowledge, techniques, and solutions. As a result, it is far from clear how these approaches should be applied to commercial software engineering. This paper has looked at many of the dimensions of the open-source movement, and provided an analysis of the different opportunities available to commercial software vendors. References and Notes 1. It can be argued that the open-source community has produced really only two essential 9 products -- Apache (undeniably the most popular web server) and Linux although both are essentially reincarnations of prior systems. Both are also somewhat products of their times: Apache filled a hole in the then emerging Web, at a time no platform vendor really knew how to step in, and Linux filled a hole in the fragmented Unix market, colored by the community s general anger against Microsoft. 2.Evans Marketing Services, Linux Developers Survey, Volume 1, March 2000.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Generic Programming and Component Engineering, GPCE 2003, held in Erfurt, Germany in September 2003. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on domain-specific languages, staged programming, modeling to code, aspect-orientation, meta-programming and language extension, automating design-to-code transitions, principled domain-specific approaches, and generation and translation.

Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) is currently a highly regarded development paradigm among developers and researchers. With the advent of OMG's MDA and Microsoft's Software Factories, the MDSD approach has moved to the centre of the programmer's attention, becoming the focus of conferences such as OOPSLA, JAOO and OOP. MDSD is about using domain-specific languages to create models that express application structure or behaviour in an efficient and domain-specific way. These models are subsequently transformed into executable code by a sequence of model transformations. This practical guide for software architects and developers is peppered with practical examples and extensive case studies. International experts deliver: * A comprehensive overview of MDSD and how it relates to industry standards such as MDA and Software Factories. * Technical details on meta modeling, DSL construction, model-to-model and model-to-code transformations, and software architecture. * Invaluable insight into the software development process, plus engineering issues such as versioning, testing and product line engineering. * Essential management knowledge covering economic and organizational topics, from a global perspective. Get started and benefit from some practical support along the way!