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SeamlessMDD: Framework for Seamless Integration of Generated and Hand-Written Code

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This paper presents SeamlessMDD - our open-source framework for a gradual and effortless transition from traditional development to MDD (Model-Driven Development) that allows maintaining hand-written and generated code intertwined without the need to adjust the web application architecture or the established way of work. We propose a novel workflow that is based on the following: (1) Incremental and iterative transformations derived from model versions comparison so that only code for affected model elements is generated or modified; (2) Integration of generated and hand-written code using API-based code generators, which operate on syntax trees of target programming languages; (3) Case-specific support for change propagation and conflict resolution (contrary to the VCS-based systems operating on the single line).

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    https://github.com/BojanaZ/SeamlessMDD.

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  1. Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Bojana Dragaš, Nenad Todorović & Gordana Milosavljević

  2. Schneider Electric, Industrijska 3G, Novi Sad, Serbia

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  1. Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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  2. Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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  3. Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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  4. Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

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  5. University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

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Dragaš, B., Todorović, N., Rajačić, T., Milosavljević, G. (2024). SeamlessMDD: Framework for Seamless Integration of Generated and Hand-Written Code. In: Stefanidis, K., Systä, K., Matera, M., Heil, S., Kondylakis, H., Quintarelli, E. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14629. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62362-2_12

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