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A modelling language for the effective design of Java annotations

Authors:

Irene Córdoba,

Juan de LaraAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '15: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 2087 - 2092

https://doi.org/10.1145/2695664.2695717

Published: 13 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

This paper describes a new modelling language for the effective design of Java annotations. Since their inclusion in the 5th edition of Java, annotations have grown from a useful tool for the addition of meta-data to play a central role in many popular software projects. Usually they are conceived as sets with dependency and integrity constraints within them; however, the native support provided by Java for expressing this design is very limited.

To overcome its deficiencies and make explicit the rich conceptual model which lies behind a set of annotations, we propose a domain-specific modelling language.

The proposal has been implemented as an Eclipse plugin, including an editor and an integrated code generator that synthesises annotation processors. The language has been tested using a real set of annotations from the Java Persistence API (JPA). It has proven to cover a greater scope with respect to other related work in different shared areas of application.

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Bergmayr AGrossniklaus MWimmer MKappel G(2018)Leveraging annotation-based modeling with JumpSoftware and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)10.1007/s10270-016-0528-y17:1(65-89)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10270-016-0528-y
Córdoba-Sánchez Ide Lara J(2016)AnnComputer Languages, Systems and Structures10.1016/j.cl.2016.02.00245:C(164-190)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.cl.2016.02.002
de Siqueira JSilveira FGuerra E(2016)An Approach for Code Annotation Validation with Metadata Location TransparencyComputational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 201610.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_30(422-438)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_30

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A modelling language for the effective design of Java annotations
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools

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SAC '15: Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

April 2015

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ISBN:9781450331968

DOI:10.1145/2695664

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University of Tulsa
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Bergmayr AGrossniklaus MWimmer MKappel G(2018)Leveraging annotation-based modeling with JumpSoftware and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)10.1007/s10270-016-0528-y17:1(65-89)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10270-016-0528-y
Córdoba-Sánchez Ide Lara J(2016)AnnComputer Languages, Systems and Structures10.1016/j.cl.2016.02.00245:C(164-190)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.cl.2016.02.002
de Siqueira JSilveira FGuerra E(2016)An Approach for Code Annotation Validation with Metadata Location TransparencyComputational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 201610.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_30(422-438)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_30

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