Designing an XML-based Representation for CaesarJ Source Code

In software development there are different paradigms that can be combined among them such as object-oriented paradigm, aspect-oriented paradigm and component-oriented paradigm. CaesarJ is a programming language that provides support for these paradigms, in addition to the support for software product lines, allowing the development of applications with more robustness. However, the support for code analysis tools is still limited with respect to the software engineering, taking as reference the implementation of XML-based structured representations for popular languages such as Java, C++, C#, among others. This paper presents the generation of a XML-based representation for CaesarJ source code in order to provide to developers and software engineers, a representation that can be processed by different tools for code analysis or other techniques aimed at working with source code.