XIRC: a kernel for cross-artifact information engineering in software development environments

M. Eichberg, M. Mezini, K. Ostermann, T. Schafer
11th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering  
We describe XIRC, a tool and architecture that enables to define queries over a uniform representation of all artifacts of a software project. These queries can be used for general cross-artifact information retrieval or for more special applications like checking implementation restrictions or conformance to style guides. XIRC is also a good basis to implement a broad range of tools for refactoring, generators, aspect-oriented programming and many other domains on top of it.
doi:10.1109/wcre.2004.45 dblp:conf/wcre/EichbergMOS04 fatcat:dj5kiigk4zg35hb76do4glebdq