Constructing Integrated Software Development Environments with MViews,” Working Paper

Abstract: MViews is a new approach to building Integrated Software Development Environments (ISDEs). Graph-based representations of software system data, and multiple views of this data, are kept consistent via graph components responding to descriptions of changes made to other components. This technique supports integrated, bi-directionally consistent graphical (interactively-edited) and textual (free-edited) views of data, ISDE integration, and version control and collaborative software development. An object-oriented framework is specialised to construct new environments. Experience using this framework to build and integrate several ISDEs is discussed. I