Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator Alchemist: a General Purpose Transformation Generator
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The papers in this series are intended for internal use and are distributed by the author. Copies may be ordered from the library of the Department of Computer Science. Abstract alchemist is a general purpose transformation generating environment which supports specii-cation, generation, and execution of data transformations. alchemist allows an abstract spec-iication of the transformation through a window-based interface and supports the generation and compilation of transformation program code from these speciications. Unlike compiler-compilers, alchemist is intended to automate building transformations between two complex representation formats and is thus especially suitable for constructing transformations between database tools, case tools, graphical editors or text formatters. In this paper we will describe the design principles and the structure of alchemist, and demonstrate its use. We will also discuss our experiences with several example transformations and present a real-life case study of using alchemist for interfacing between two software development environments.
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