@inproceedings{cc53cb7bec9841d8914ef23caa66aef2,
title = "Introspective model-driven development",
abstract = "In this paper, we propose a new approach to model-driven development, which we call introspective model-driven development (IMDD). This approach relies heavily on some well-understood underlying abstractions, in order to bridge the abstraction gap between the requirements and the actual executable system. These abstractions are object-oriented programming languages and frameworks as a means of architectural abstraction. The main idea of IMDD is to annotate the extension points of a framework explicitly, which enables the automatic introspection of the defined metamodel. In a second step, a model of the customizations can be obtained by model introspection. There are two kinds of introspective frameworks – introspective blackbox and introspective whitebox frameworks. We developed an extension of the Eclipse IDE, which supports introspective model-driven development. Furthermore, we discuss the characteristics of the proposed approach, compared to established generative approaches.",
author = "Thomas B{\"u}chner and Florian Matthes",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.; 3rd European Workshop on Software Architecture, EWSA 2006 ; Conference date: 04-09-2006 Through 05-09-2006",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/11966104_4",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783540692713",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "33--49",
editor = "Volker Gruhn and Flavio Oquendo",
booktitle = "Software Architecture - 3rd European Workshop, EWSA 2006, Revised Selected Papers",
}