Visual Craft: a visual integrated development environment

Visual Craft is an ongoing project to develop an integrated software development environment which uses visual languages and notations to support object-oriented development. Visual notations are used to provide an intuitive notation for both system design and implementation. The visual programming component is based on a well-defined graph grammar that enables the systematic construction of such environments, as well as syntax-directed translation and code generation. The programming environment is modeled around interactive, derivation-based, syntax-directed editing. This paper outlines the basic components of Visual Craft and gives a more detailed account of the visual programming aspects of this environment