Problems in Interfacing Tools of Different Development Environments.

Integrating two separate development environments requires information transfer between the tools or the underlying repositories of the environments. This information transfer has usually been solved by applying ad hoc transformations to integrate the tools within a single development environment. We study the problem of making tools in diierent environments cooperate without modifying the tools or their environment. This requires building a permanent interfacing mechanism between the two environments. Problems particular to this context are incompatibility of the source and target languages, multiple views used within the environments, diierent naming conventions , and diierent ways of representing graphical information.