Towards Automatic Code Generation for EAI Solutions using DSL Tools

Current companies count on heterogeneous information technology applications to perform their activities. More often than not, they need to be integrated so that the data they manage is kept in sync or to implement new functionality. According to a recent report by IBM, companies spend from $5 to $20 on integration per dollar spent on developing new functionality. This ratio argues for engineering solutions. The Model-Driven Architecture initiative promotes the development of software systems at different levels of abstraction, and Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) play a prominent role to reduce development costs. By means of an appropriate DSL, software engineers can design a software system that can later be deployed to a variety of specific platforms using automatic transformations. Our proposal to reduce integration costs is a DSL called Guaran´a and a software tool to design and automatically deploy integration solutions. Compared to the Enterprise Application Integration UML-profiles, DSLs are more suitable to address problems in a particular domain and are a better approach towards MDA.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2007-64119Junta de Andalucía P07-TIC-02602Junta de Andalucía P08-TIC-410