Transformational generation of language plug-ins in the harmonia framework

The Harmonia framework provides an infrastructure for building language-aware interactive programming tools. Harmonia supports many languages through language plug-ins, which are dynamically-loadable system extensions generated from lexical, syntactic, and semantic descriptions. In this report, we describe our approach to generating Harmonia language plug-ins from a variety of domain-specific description languages. We present the process of configuring plug-in analysis components, the transformations for high-level syntactic and semantic descriptions, and the optimizations for generated code. This largely adhoc process makes our generation techniques expensive to create and difficult to maintain. We propose a new component-based architecture based on transformational generation, present its benefits, and outlin