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Textual DSLs and Code Generators
In this tutorial, we will capitalize on the DSL we have built in the Textual DSLs - Concepts and Tooling tutorial and show various ways to process the models that can be created with this DSL. Domain Specific Languages are becoming important ingredients of software developers' tool chests. The mainstream is divided into two camps: external graphical DSLs (aka Modeling) and internal textual DSLs (via meta programming in languages like Ruby). As experience shows however, a sweet spot for DSLs is textual external DSLs: you can define any grammar you want, you can have domain specific constraint checks and error messages, and processing models is straight forward: generate code or interpret them based on the AST derived from the grammar. Another advantage - especially compared to graphical DSLs - is that they integrate natively with today's development infrastructure (CVS/SVN diff/merge). The goal of this tutorial is to provide with an understanding of how MDSD code generators work as well as give you a hands-on experience of how to create MDSD model processors that validate, transform and interpret formalized (textual) models in a way that is efficient enough for practical project reality. Please bring your Windows laptop - the tutorial includes hands-on work for you, the participant!
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