An Eclipse Platform Extension for Analysis and Manipulation of Multi-Language Software Code

摘要

In this paper, we propose formal model and a platform, based on eclipse plugins, for analysis of multi-language software. These provide a graph representation of the software source codes, database schemas, resource files, integrated within formal models which are implemented in an eclipse platform. The models are based on graphs rewriting, and represent software components and their corresponding various relationships which are extracted from the source codes files of an eclipse project. The implementation uses javacc tool allowing to generate parsers based on grammars specifications files, which include features permitting to produce a graph representation of the software components. The JBoss Rule expert system performs rules on obtained graphs such as to deduce knowledge which is not provided by the current eclipse platform. Obtained knowledge concerns relationships between software components such as database tables and their use by Java Query Statements. Furthermore, this knowledge is used by a software change propagation plugins in order to evaluate the impact of changed database tables.