Domain-Specific Modeling for Full Code Generation

Speaker: Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCASE Consulting 

Brief description: Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) languages provide a viable solution for
improving development productivity by raising the level of abstraction beyond coding. 
With DSM, the models are made up of elements representing concepts that are part of the 
domain world, not the code world (like e.g. in UML). These languages follow domain 
abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive themselves as working 
directly with domain concepts. In many cases, full final product code can be 
automatically generated from these high-level specifications with domain-specific code 
generators. 

This talk introduces DSM and shows a series of real-life examples from various fields of 
software product development - ranging from embedded cell phone software to B2B J2EE web 
sites. Second part of the talk addresses the principles for implementing DSM: how to 
identify the necessary language constructs, and different ways of building code 
generation.