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Generating Eclipse Editor Plug-Ins Using Tiger

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Book cover Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance (AGTIVE 2007)

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Abstract

We present Tiger, a visual environment to design visual language (VL) specifications based on meta models, graph grammars and layout definitions. A VL specification serves as basis to generate a visual editor for VL diagrams as Eclipse plug-in.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institut für Softwaretechnik und Theoretische Informatik, TU Berlin, Email: tigerprj@cs.tu-berlin.de, Germany

    Enrico Biermann & Claudia Ermel

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester, UK

    Karsten Ehrig

  3. Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Marburg, Germany

    Gabriele Taentzer

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  1. Enrico Biermann
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  1. Fachgebiet Echtzeitsysteme, Technische Universität Darmstadt, D-64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Andy Schürr

  2. Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen, Chair of Computer Science III, Aachen, Germany

    Manfred Nagl

  3. Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Albert Zündorf

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Biermann, E., Ehrig, K., Ermel, C., Taentzer, G. (2008). Generating Eclipse Editor Plug-Ins Using Tiger. In: Schürr, A., Nagl, M., Zündorf, A. (eds) Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance. AGTIVE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5088. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89020-1_43

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