Section: Software

IDE Meta-tooling Platform

Participants : Jurgen Vinju [ correspondent ] , Arnold Lankamp.

IMP, the IDE meta tooling platform is an Eclipse plugin developed mainly by the team of Robert M. Fuhrer at IBM TJ Watson Research institute. It is both an abstract layer for Eclipse, allowing rapid development of Eclipse based IDEs for programming languages, and a collection of meta programming tools for generating source code analysis and transformation tools.

Jurgen Vinju and Arnold Lankamp contribute significantly to the development of IMP. Their effort was focused on the development of a general purpose symbolic representation library for source code artifacts, called “PDB”. PDB stands for Program DataBase. For more information, please visit http://www.eclipse.org/imp .