IMP: The IDE Meta-Tooling Platform

IMP is a project to devlop IDE meta-tooling for Eclipse. The goal of the project is to ease the development of commercial-quality IDE support for new programming languages, including the following features:

generation and management of parsers, AST's, and semantic analysis
syntax highlighting, outline view population, package explorer-like navigation, content assistance, project natures and builders, error markers
refactoring support (not only "Move" and "Rename", but type- and code-related refactorings requiring non-trivial analysis, e.g. "Extract Method" and "Infer Type Arguments")
static program analysis (pointer analysis, type analysis, etc.) in support of the above
execution and debugging support

We accomplish this by a mixture of language service-creation wizards, class libraries to encapsulate common language-processing infrastructure, and code skeletons to get the language service-implementer started. Moreover, the IMP framework has been engineered to support the incremental specification and implementation of language services for languages that derive from an existing base language. In this way, IDE's built using IMP are themselves extensible.

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Newsgroups

eclipse.technology.imp: Technical discussions on the use of the IMP IDE Meta-tooling Platform (web)

Mailing Lists

imp-dev: IMP Developer's List(web)

Source Repository

Eclipse projects store all of their source code in public revision control systems. The project hosts its revision control repository at:

SVN: http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/technology/org.eclipse.imp

CVS and SVN repositories are browseable on the web.

Committers

Active:
Robert Fuhrer
Jurgen Vinju
Participating:
Stanley Sutton

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