Construção de um compilador de JAVA para a linguagem formal VCt.

Abstract

In this paper we present a System for the Automatic Generation of Design Tools, for a wide variety of Modelling Techniques (MT's), such as Dataflow Diagrams (DFD's), State Transition Diagrams (STD's), Activity Diagrams (AD's) or Entity Relationship Diagrams (ER's). This System, also called VC System, is targeted to those MT's that have diagram based notations, such as the ones mentioned above. Those MT's are formally described using a language specially defined for this purpose - the VCt(Visual Concepts textual). This language uses constraints toexpress the concept structure of a MT. Specifications writtenin VCt can be parsed and automatically generate executablecode, which implements an interactive design tool dedicatedto the given MT.