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Whole Platform
The Whole Platform is an open source technology for engineering the production of software.
Based on the idea that programming is an activity concerning the development of domain languages, the Whole Platform provides an Eclipse-based Language Workbench for developing new languages, manipulating them using domain notations and transforming them using a generative model driven approach.
In using the Whole Platform, business knowledge can be expressed with domain specific languages and made independent of the technologies used to realize the products.
The introduction of domain languages and notations enables the problem domain experts to work together with the programming experts for the development of the software products: the former write the business knowledge, the latter write the generators.
The Whole Platform enforces an economy of scale.
The fact that the generators are coupled to the domain languages and not to a particular business knowledge expressed with them, means that the effort of the software development is not spent in a singular product but rather in building a software product line.
The languages bundled with the Whole Platform include:
- modeling languages;
- query and transformation languages;
- data integration languages for grammars, XSD, RDB and Java libraries;
- and popular languages such as Java and XML.
The Whole Platform makes the transition smoother for the developers who prefer
to code the domain knowledge as libraries instead of domain specific languages.
The Platform, in fact, includes both an Eclipse-based Language Workbench and a Java-based Language Library.
All the expressive power of domain languages is also available in their Java coded counterpart
generated on top of our Language Framework.
Furthermore the Whole Platform is written with extensive use of well-known Design Patterns.
What's New
New milestone release available. A new major release of the Whole Platform is available through the update site, the maven repository and the download page.
New Examples available. Updated the Documentation page with more representative examples.
Talk announcement. We will be presenting at the EclipseCon 2008 conference the Talk: "The Whole Platform: a Language Workbench for Eclipse".
New milestone release available. A new major release of the Whole Platform is available through the update site, the maven repository and the download page.
New Tutorial and Screenshots available. A new tutorial describing a complex model driven generator has been added. Also we have updated the Screenshots page with examples written with the Queries language.
New Screenshots available. Updated the Screenshots page with examples written with two new languages: Queries and Grammars.
New milestone release available. A new major release of the Whole Platform is available through both the update site and the download page.
New Screenshots available. Updated the Screenshots page with more representative examples.
New milestone release available. A new major release of the Whole Platform is available through both the update site and the download page.
New beta release available. A new public beta of the Whole Platform is available through the update site. Please, check the update site every week for new releases.
New beta release available. A new public beta of the Whole Platform has been released today. Added the slides of the JUGMI Meeting presentation in the Documentation page.
Third public beta available. The third public beta of the Whole Platform has been released today.
Second public beta available. The second public beta of the Whole Platform has been released today.
First public beta available. The first public beta of the Whole Platform has been released today.
Welcome to the Whole Project Site. Today the Whole Project Site has been published.