Towards integration of policies into DSMLs

Abstract

As domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) become more widely used, it is important to develop approaches for creating DSMLs that allows different aspects of the language to be incrementally added. It is important, where possible, that the new aspects (or features) of the DSML be added using an automated or semi-automated approach. By creating such an approach the developers of a DSML can start with the constructs to describe the main functionality in the domain, then add those features to the DSML necessary to specify the non-functional constraints in the domain. In this paper we present a semi-automatic approach to integrate a policy language into an existing DSML. As proof of concept we apply the approach to a simple DSML from the bookstore domain.