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@incollection{SteyaertMetalevelArchBk1996,
author = {Patrick Steyaert and De Hondt, Koen and Serge Demeyer and
Niels Boyen},
booktitle = {Advances in Object-Oriented Metalevel Architectures
and Reflection},
editor = {Chris Zimmerman},
pages = {291-309},
publisher = {CRC Press - Boca Raton - Florida},
title = {Reflective User Interface Builders},
year = {1996},
abstract = {Current visual application builders and application
frameworks do not live up to their expectations of
rapid application development or
non-programming-expert application development. They
fall short when compared to component-oriented
development environments in which applications are
built with components that have a strong affinity
with the problem domain (i.e. being domain-specific).
Although the latter environments are very powerful,
they are hard to build and, in general, do not allow
much variation in the problem domain that is covered.
In this paper we show how this apparent conflict
between generality and domain specificity can be
overcome by considering application building itself
as the problem domain. This naturally leads to the
notion of a reflective application builder, i.e. an
application framework-application builder pair that
incorporates all the tools for the visual
construction of (domain-specific) application
builders.},
annote = {bookchapter},
}