Semantic Annotation Pattern For Coding And Its Application In Component Development

Source code annotations have an important role in software development. Structured annotations - those that follow building schemes- provide extra semantics to the code and are suitable for the automatization of complementary development tasks. There are recent initiatives towards interrelating annotations and ontologies, expanding their expressiveness and interoperability. In this paper we propose a new strategy based on meta-annotations to support structured annotations implicitly related to ontologies. It systematizes and simplifies the process of semantically annotating code, since programmers can use annotations without knowing details of the involved ontologies. 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