Going beyond templates
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Summary: | Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024. Acknowledgements Partially supported by Grant Lisboa-01-0247-Feder-045917. Funding Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). |
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Going beyond templatescomposition and evolution in nested OSTRICHLow-code modelsMetamodelMetaprogrammingModel reuseTemplatingTypechecking templatesSoftwareModelling and SimulationPublisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024. Acknowledgements Partially supported by Grant Lisboa-01-0247-Feder-045917. Funding Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on).Low-code frameworks strive to simplify and speed up application development. An essential mechanism to achieve these goals is to have native support for the safe reuse and usage of parameterized coarse-grain components, providing developers with strong guardrails and a rich software-building experience. OSTRICH —a rich template language for the OutSystems platform—was designed to simplify the use and creation of such components. Thus, the application developer can quickly reuse and assemble sophisticated and thoroughly tested application blocks. However, without a built-in composition and evolution mechanism, OSTRICH templates are still hard to create and maintain. This sometimes requires the repetition of code across different templates and creates a conflict between the customizations of the instantiated application models, and the update and reapplication of a template definition. This paper presents a principled mechanism for using abstraction in the creation of templates and simultaneously supporting the evolution of OSTRICH templates in applications after use. First, we introduce a template composition mechanism, its typing discipline, and its instantiation algorithm for model-driven low-code development environments. We start by extending OSTRICH to support nested templates and allow the instantiation (hatching) of templates in the definition of other templates. Nesting promotes a significant increase in code reuse potential, leading to a safer evolution of applications. We then introduce the support for customizable template instances, which allows one to evolve templates’ code and then update a template instance without losing customizations performed in the generated code. The present definition seamlessly extends the existing OutSystems metamodel with template constructs expressed by model annotations that maintain backward compatibility with the existing language toolchain. We present the metamodel, a set of annotations to support the extensions, and the corresponding validation and instantiation algorithms. In particular, we introduce a type-based validation procedure for abstractions that ensures that using templates always produces valid models. This work also extends prior developments on Nested OSTRICH with the support for safe customizations of instantiated code. We validate Nested OSTRICH using the OSTRICH benchmark by identifying the degree of reusability that can be reached in the existing sample of real templates and template uses. Our prototype is an extension of the OutSystems IDE that allows the annotation of models and their use to produce new models. We also analyze which existing OutSystems sample screen templates can be improved by using and sharing nested templates.NOVALincsRUNSeco, João CostaLourenço, HugoParreira, JoanaFerreira, Carla2024-06-26T22:25:57Z2024-05-202024-05-20T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article26application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/169108eng1619-1366PURE: 93106274https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-024-01178-winfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)instname:FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiainstacron:RCAAP2024-07-08T01:33:54Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/169108Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireinfo@rcaap.ptopendoar:https://opendoar.ac.uk/repository/71602025-05-28T17:57:14.750745Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) - FCCN, serviços digitais da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologiafalse |
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Going beyond templates composition and evolution in nested OSTRICH |
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Going beyond templates |
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Going beyond templates Seco, João Costa Low-code models Metamodel Metaprogramming Model reuse Templating Typechecking templates Software Modelling and Simulation |
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Going beyond templates |
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Seco, João Costa |
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Seco, João Costa Lourenço, Hugo Parreira, Joana Ferreira, Carla |
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Seco, João Costa Lourenço, Hugo Parreira, Joana Ferreira, Carla |
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Low-code models Metamodel Metaprogramming Model reuse Templating Typechecking templates Software Modelling and Simulation |
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Low-code models Metamodel Metaprogramming Model reuse Templating Typechecking templates Software Modelling and Simulation |
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Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024. Acknowledgements Partially supported by Grant Lisboa-01-0247-Feder-045917. Funding Open access funding provided by FCT|FCCN (b-on). |
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