Graphite: Automated Development of Hybrid Graphical-Textual DSL Editors

Hybrid graphical-textual domain-specific languages can deliver the best of both worlds of graphical and textual modelling, by providing a graphical syntax for some parts of the language and a textual syntax for others. Graphite is a tool that facilitates the automated development of hybrid graphical-textual model editors for domain-specific languages. This paper outlines the capabilities of the hybrid editors generated by Graphite: smart textual editors, textual-graphical cross-referencing, integrated refactoring, consistency enforcement, tolerance of temporary inconsistencies, integrated abstract syntax graph, uniform error reporting, and conditional storage of derived model elements. Furthermore, the language engineering process employed by Graphite is demonstrated.