Declarative Specification of Web-based Integrated Development Environments

This thesis describes a set of tools and abstractions that facilitate the development of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that runs in the browser. We present a plugin for ACE, the Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor, that adds support for languages defined with SDF. The plugin supports vital editor support such as syntax highlighting and validation. Language syntax can be declaritively defined with no concern for the underlying implementation. This approach is realized by compiling a Java library to JavaScript using the Google Web Toolkit. Besides syntactic support, semantic checks are supported by means of the Stratego language. A compiler backend for the Stratego compiler is developed targetting the JavaScript language.Software Engineering Research GroupSoftware TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc