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Welcome to Tom: a software environment for defining transformations

News [2009-05-26]

Tom version 2.7 is out! New installation procedure The Eclipse Plugin is back Tom APIs are now documented Working on a bridge between SDF and Gom Information about Licensing_conditions A simple implementation of Binary Decision Diagram is available here We now have a Java parser (based on antlr 3.1) that builds a Gom term (ready for strategy transformation) A nice post introducing Tom by Luis Diego Fallas part 1 part 2 part 3 Term-graph rewriting in Tom: an example in the guided tour

What is Tom?

• Tom is a language extension designed to manipulate tree structures and XML documents
• Tom provides pattern matching facilities to inspect objects and retrieve values
• Tom can be used with C, Java, Python, C++, C#, etc.
• Tom is used in several companies to implement transformations of programs and queries
• Tom is a mature and stable project which started in 2001 (see museum)

Getting Started

• Tom version 2.7 is available for download :
  • windows version
  • stable version
  • examples
  • full version (stable version + source code + examples)

• Installation guide
• Guided Tour
• The full documentation is available online or as a PDF Book

Tom and Java

When Tom is used in a Java environment some additional features are available:

• We provide a generator of efficient object oriented tree based data-structures (Gom)
• We provide a powerful strategy language that can be used to control transformations

Materials

• Logos
• Integrating Tom in an existing Java application that uses Java Persistence API: Video

• Tom in the news : Here is a collection of links to what speaks about Tom on the web.
• Material for lectures
• The old Research zone link has been transferred to the TomResearch wiki, which is a private wiki with a limited access (subscriptions have been closed). Useful links have been dispatched.

Tom wiki

• This wiki site is quite new (and under construction), feel free to contribute
• The old website is there
• See MetaDoc for a list of templates
• Formatting
• Mediawiki:Sidebar to modify the sidebar
• Template:News to modify the news box