Domain-Specific Languages Made Easy, Version 4

Domain-Specific Languages Made Easy MEAP V04
Copyright
Welcome
Brief contents
Chapter 1: What is a Domain-Specific Language?
	1.1 A business case: a car rental company
	1.2 Using a DSL-based approach for software development
		1.2.1 The design of the Domain IDE
		1.2.2 The architecture of the Domain IDE
		1.2.3 What we’ll be doing in this book
	1.3 Why use a DSL-based approach for software development?
		1.3.1 Empowering the domain experts
		1.3.2 Improving efficiency of the software development process
		1.3.3 New possibilities
		1.3.4 When (not) to use a DSL-based approach?
	1.4 What is a DSL?
		1.4.1 Key aspects
	1.5 Summary
Chapter 2: Representing DSL content as structured data
	2.1 Establishing an object-relation diagram notation to represent structured data
	2.2 Going from concrete, to abstract syntax
	2.3 Summary
Chapter 3: Working with ASTs in code
	3.1 Turning ASTs into code
		3.1.1 Encoding containment relations
		3.1.2 Encoding reference relations
	3.2 Interacting with ASTs
		3.2.1 Accessing concept labels, and settings' values
		3.2.2 Recognizing AST objects and references
	3.3 Traversing ASTs
		3.3.1 The general recipe for depth-first tree traversal
		3.3.2 Example: counting leaves of an AST
	3.4 Summary
Chapter 4: Projecting the AST
	4.1 Preparing the implementation of the projection
	4.2 Implementing the projection iteratively
		4.2.1 Projecting record types
		4.2.2 Projecting attributes
		4.2.3 Projecting the initial values
	4.3 Summary
Chapter 5: Editing values in the projection
	5.1 Changing names
		5.1.1 Starting the editing
		5.1.2 Using edit state
		5.1.3 A reactive architecture for projectional editors
		5.1.4 Reacting to change with MobX
		5.1.5 Stopping the editing
		5.1.6 Updating the AST
	5.2 Changing the value of a number literal
	5.3 Choosing the type of an attribute
	5.4 Choosing an attribute for a reference
	5.5 Summary
Chapter 6: Editing objects in the projection
	6.1 Adding new objects to the AST
		6.1.1 Adding an attribute
		6.1.2 Adding an initial value
	6.2 Selecting objects
		6.2.1 Selecting an attribute
		6.2.2 Deselecting an attribute
		6.2.3 Selecting and deselecting any object
	6.3 Deleting objects
		6.3.1 Deleting initial values
		6.3.2 Deleting attributes
		6.3.3 Deleting any object
	6.4 Summary
Chapter 7: Implementing persistence and transportation of ASTs
	7.1 Implementing and using a simple backend
	7.2 Serializing an AST
	7.3 Deserializing ASTs
	7.4 Making an AST observable during deserialization
	7.5 Implementing save functionality
	7.6 Summary
Chapter 8: Generating code from the AST
	8.1 Integrating the build system with the software development process
	8.2 Using a reference implementation
	8.3 A Runtime for “Rental”
	8.4 Implementing a code generator using templates
		8.4.1 Iterating from reference source to template
		8.4.2 Composing template functions
		8.4.3 Indenting declaratively
		8.4.4 Finishing the code generator
		8.4.5 Alternative approaches for writing templates
	8.5 Summary
Notes