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Jast Add

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Date: 2008-03-20

Time: 11:00

Room: BBL room 471

----+++ Speaker: Nabil el Boustani

----+++ Title: JastAdd

----+++ Abstract


Writing production quality compilers for modern programming languages is 
very
challenging task, because a compiler builder has to deal with many 
aspects, such
as name and type analysis,  code optimization and code generation, which 
can not
always be developed in isolation from each other.  In this talk I will 
present a
compiler construction framework named JastAdd that allows to build 
compilers in
a generative and highly modular and extendible way. The three main 
techniques
used in JastAdd that allow separation of concerns are: 1) inheritance for
modularization and software reuse, 2) attribute grammars and aspects for
capturing cross-cutting concerns, and 3) rewrites to perform computation 
and the
best suitable models. JastAdd has been tested and evaluated in practice by
building a complete Java 1.4 compiler and several program analysis tools 
for the
Java language.

If you have been introduced to UUAG (Utrecht University Attribute Grammar)
compiler and would like to have something similar for Java, then JastAdd 
might be
the right tool for you.