EMF on Rails

Rosa López-Landa, Julieta Noguez, Esther Guerra, Juan de Lara

2012

Abstract

In this paper we propose leveraging existing frameworks for automated web application development, in the style of Ruby on Rails, Grails and Spring Roo, for their use within a Model-Driven Engineering process. Our approach automates the construction of domain-specific generators for web applications in particular domains. These generators are able to synthesize web applications using Spring Roo, starting from annotated models. In this way, designers of web applications do not need to be proficient in web automation frameworks, but they can benefit from the use of domain-specific, intuitive models. We illustrate our approach by generating an application to edit Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) models through the web.

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in Harvard Style

López-Landa R., Noguez J., Guerra E. and de Lara J. (2012). EMF on Rails . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 273-278. DOI: 10.5220/0004123202730278


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft12,
author={Rosa López-Landa and Julieta Noguez and Esther Guerra and Juan de Lara},
title={EMF on Rails},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={273-278},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004123202730278},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - EMF on Rails
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - López-Landa R.
AU - Noguez J.
AU - Guerra E.
AU - de Lara J.
PY - 2012
SP - 273
EP - 278
DO - 10.5220/0004123202730278