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 <h1>Introduction</h1>

 The Rephraser Engine is an Eclipse-based library that expedites the development of refactoring tools.  It contains two components:
 <ul>
 <li> The <i>refactoring</i> component allows plug-ins to easily contribute refactorings to the Eclipse user interface.
 <li> The <i>virtual program graph (VPG)</i> component provides a language-independent program database and indexing infrastructure.
 </ul>

 These components are independent; some projects may choose to use the Refactoring component without using the VPG component, for example.  The dependencies among the projects comprising the Rephraser Engine are as follows.

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 "Rephraser" is an acronym, which stands for
 Rapid
 Eclipse
 Prototyping
 Host for
 Research on
 Approximate
 Semantic
 Equivalence-based
 Refactoring.

 <h2>Features</h2>

 <h3>Refactoring</h3>

 The Refactoring component extends the Eclipse Language ToolKit (LTK) and
 <ul>
 <li> contributes a Refactor menu to the workbench menu bar, as well as to the context menu for resource selections in the workbench;
 <li> provides an extension point that allows refactorings to be contributed to this menu; and
 <li> does not require any user interface code to be written for simple refactorings.
 </ul>

 <h3>VPG</h3>

 The VPG component
 <ul>
 <li> provides a set of base classes for building persistable program graphs;
 <li> provides an indexing infrastructure by registering a resource listener and automatically updating program graphs as workspace resources change; and
 <li> contributes a "(Debugging)" sub-menu to the workbench Refactoring menu, which provides various actions for viewing, analyzing, and manipulating VPG databases.
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	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
	<title>Introduction</title>
	</head>

	<body>
	<h1>Introduction</h1>

	The Rephraser Engine is an Eclipse-based library that expedites the development of refactoring tools. It contains two components:
	<ul>
	<li> The <i>refactoring</i> component allows plug-ins to easily contribute refactorings to the Eclipse user interface.
	<li> The <i>virtual program graph (VPG)</i> component provides a language-independent program database and indexing infrastructure.
	</ul>

	These components are independent; some projects may choose to use the Refactoring component without using the VPG component, for example. The dependencies among the projects comprising the Rephraser Engine are as follows.

	<img src="../../images/architecture.png" border="0" />

	"Rephraser" is an acronym, which stands for
	Rapid
	Eclipse
	Prototyping
	Host for
	Research on
	Approximate
	Semantic
	Equivalence-based
	Refactoring.

	<h2>Features</h2>

	<h3>Refactoring</h3>

	The Refactoring component extends the Eclipse Language ToolKit (LTK) and
	<ul>
	<li> contributes a Refactor menu to the workbench menu bar, as well as to the context menu for resource selections in the workbench;
	<li> provides an extension point that allows refactorings to be contributed to this menu; and
	<li> does not require any user interface code to be written for simple refactorings.
	</ul>

	<h3>VPG</h3>

	The VPG component
	<ul>
	<li> provides a set of base classes for building persistable program graphs;
	<li> provides an indexing infrastructure by registering a resource listener and automatically updating program graphs as workspace resources change; and
	<li> contributes a "(Debugging)" sub-menu to the workbench Refactoring menu, which provides various actions for viewing, analyzing, and manipulating VPG databases.
	</ul>

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