Guided development with multiple domain-specific languages

We study the Apache Open for Business (OFBiz), an industrial-strength platform for enterprise applications. OFBiz is an example of a substantial project using model-driven development with multiple domain-specific languages (DSLs). We identify consistency management as one of its key challenges. To address this challenge, we present SmartEMF, which is an extension of the Eclipse Modeling Framework that provides support for representing, checking, and maintaining constraints in the context of multiple loosely-coupled DSLs. SmartEMF provides a simple form of user guidance by computing the valid set of editing operations that are available in a given context. We evaluate the prototype by applying it to the OFBiz project.

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