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Embedded typesafe domain specific languages for Java

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ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 347 archive
Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java table of contents

Modena, Italy

SESSION: Java language issues table of contents

Pages 189-197

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-60558-223-8

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Jevgeni Kabanov	University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Rein Raudjärv	University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Projects like jMock and Hibernate Criteria Query introduced embedded DSLs into Java. We describe two case studies in which we develop embedded typesafe DSLs for building SQL queries and engineering Java bytecode. We proceed to extract several patterns useful for developing typesafe DSLs for arbitrary domains. Unlike most previous Java DSLs we find that mixing the Fluent Interface idiom with static functions, metadata and closures provides for a better user experience than pure method chaining. We also make very liberal use of the Java 5 Generics to improve the type safety properties of the DSLs.

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