A Generative Programming Approach to Developing Pervasive Computing Systems

Damien Cassou (1, 2) , Benjamin Bertran (2) , Nicolas Loriant (2) , Charles Consel (2, 3)

1 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
2 Phoenix - Programming Language Technology For Communication Services
3 ENSEIRB - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux

Developing pervasive computing applications is a difficult task because it requires to deal with a wide range of issues: heterogeneous devices, entity distribution, entity coordination, low-level hardware knowledge... Besides requiring various areas of expertise, programming such applications involves writing a lot of administrative code to glue technologies together and to interface with both hardware and software components. This paper proposes a generative programming approach to providing programming, execution and simulation support dedicated to the pervasive computing domain. This approach relies on a domain-specific language, named DiaSpec, dedicated to the description of pervasive computing systems. Our generative approach factors out features of distributed systems technologies, making DiaSpec-specified software systems portable. The DiaSpec compiler is implemented and has been used to generate dedicated programming frameworks for a variety of pervasive computing applications, including detailed ones to manage the building of an engineering school.

Mots clés: design; languages; pervasive computing; generative programming; DSL; diaspec

Domaines: Langage de programmation [cs.PL]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Informatique ubiquitaire

Damien Cassou, Benjamin Bertran, Nicolas Loriant, Charles Consel. A Generative Programming Approach to Developing Pervasive Computing Systems. GPCE '09: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering, Oct 2009, Denver, CO, United States. pp.137-146. ⟨inria-00405819v2⟩