EGOE: a Generating System of Multi-View Editing Environments on Eclipse Platform

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of EGOE, a generating system of multi-view editing environments on Eclipse platform. EGOE was designed to generate a language-specific editor (LSE) on Eclipse for any domain specific language. Given an editing-related specification of a target language, EGOE applies a model-driven process to generate an editing environment for the target language. The generated editor works on Eclipse and has synchronized multiple views, each possessing either structured or textual editing capability. The structured editing capability is mostly generated by EMF[4], which our system cooperates with, while the textual editing capability is generated by EGOE to work on top of the complicated editor framework of Eclipse. In addition to required basic functionalities, the editors generated by EGOE have also the features of syntax highlight, content assist and preferences setting etc. for the target language.