2015/11/03 by Claudia Ermel, Ermel, Claudia, Karsten Ehrig +5
Computer Science · #Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies #Logic, programming, and type systems #Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
paper · doi:10.14279/tuj.eceasst.1.86
openalex publication_date 2024/03/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
In this paper we present the state-of-the-art of the TIGER environment for the generation of visual editor plug-ins in Eclipse, with the focus on its Designer component, a visual environment for object oriented and rule-based design of visual languages. Based on an alphabet for finite automata we show how a visual language can be designed by defining the abstract and concrete syntax of the visual language and syntax directed editing operations in the generated editor plug-in. For the graphical layout we use the Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) of ECLIPSE which offers an efficient and standardized way for graphical layouting.