Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Meta-Environment 2.0, Release Candidate 3 is online, and SDF 2.5 released

With the release of Meta-Environment 2.0RC3, SDF 2.5 was also released. This release candidate also supplies a binary installer for Linux/i386. See also:
  • Downloads for source distribution of The ASF+SDF Meta-Environment 2.0 RC3
  • Downloads for binary linux installer of The ASF+SDF Meta-Environment 2.0 RC3
  • Downloads for source distribution of SDF 2.5
  • Downloads for binary linux installer of SDF 2.5

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

The Meta-Environment will be released under the BSD license

All forthcoming releases and release candidates of The Meta-Environment and its sub-components will be released under the BSD License.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

The Module Manager presented at LDTA 2007

The module manager, which is a core component of The Meta-Environment, and the prime vehicle for instantiating IDE's for other domain specific languages was presented by Taeke Kooiker at the Seventh Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA)

Friday, March 23, 2007

The Meta-Environment demo at CSMR 2007

The Meta-Environment 2.0, release candidate 2 was demonstrated to a mixed academic and industrial audience at the 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering. This demonstration included the Software Visualization plugin for The Meta-Environment. This plugin was constructed by master students of the Universiteit van Amsterdam in a project for the courses Software Process and Software Construction. The plugin will be made available with release candidate 3.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

SDF on its own website

The primary reference for SDF is now http://www.syntax-definition.org The Meta-Environment team has always made SDF available as a separately distributable and usable product. Due to this policy, SDF is now used by many different projects and people. Now, we also present SDF on its own website.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Meta-Environment 2.0, Release Candidate 2 is online, and SDF 2.4 released

See ReleaseNotes for a description of the next release candidate of the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment. With this release, SDF 2.4 was also released. This release candidate is the first to supply a binary installer for Linux/i386. See also:

  • ReleaseNotes
  • Downloads for source distribution of The ASF+SDF Meta-Environment 2.0 RC2
  • Downloads for binary linux installer of The ASF+SDF Meta-Environment 2.0 RC2
Meta-Environment Cake

Friday, February 9, 2007

ATerms in Top Ten most cited Software Engineering Papers

The January issue of the journal Information and Software Technology publishes a list of most cited articles in software engineering that were published in the year 2000. The original ATerm article ("Efficient Annotated Terms", M.G.J. van den Brand, H.A. de Jong, P. Klint and P.A. Olivier, Software-Practice and Experience 30 (3):259-291 Mar 2000) appears on the sixth position. A follow-up paper describing applications of ATerms appears in that same journal and can be found at ATerms for manipulation and exchange of structured data: It's all about sharing.

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Plugin Architecture

Hayco de Jong defends his dissertation at the Universiteit van Amsterdam on component technology with its application to the infra-structure of The Meta-Environment.

See also:

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

The Documentation Frontlines

The documentation project of The Meta-Environment 2.0 is progressing at a steady pace. See Documentation. Most of the old manual is updated already. The first guided tour (flash) demo was put online yesterday.

All progress made on the documentation front is published online immediately.

Monday, January 15, 2007

Using the Meta-Environment for COBOL Analysis and Transformation

Niels Veerman defends at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam his dissertation on Cobol analysis and transformation using The Meta-Environment. His cases include goto elimination and the detection of 'mines' in COBOL source code. See http://www.cs.vu.nl/~nveerman/research/thesis.pdf. Also see the popular article in the (Dutch) newspaper Computable http://www.computable.nl/artikel.jsp?id=1839499