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Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Chicken and Pig

Question: Concerning a bacon-and-egg breakfast, what's the difference between the role of the chicken and that of the pig? Answer: The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed! So what does that have to do with my work on Xtext?

by Karsten Thoms

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, DSL, Software Development

Building Xtext DSLs with Gradle

When it comes to picking a tool for building Xtext projects many users still prefer Maven Tycho. With the rise of Gradle as the primary build tool for many companies the game is gradually changing and developers exposed to Gradle hardly want to turn back to Maven ...

by Franz Becker

7 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Language development on .NET with Xtext – Part 2: Creating a .NET assembly from an Xtext DSL

In the first part of this blog series we have introduced an example use case of integrating an Xtext DSL in a C# command-line calculator. This post will go into the details of how to use Maven to create a .NET assembly containing the DSL and Xtext runtime classes ...

by Bernhard Stadler

8 min. reading time
itemis products, Embedded, Traceability

Traceability management with YAKINDU Traceability – An overview

Even though traceability management is required in several industries, most companies have an individual solution to link their development artifacts across their tools. These solutions are often not very comfortable and have several limitations. In this post I ...

by Boris Holzer

4 min. reading time
Continuous Integration

Releasing Maven Tycho Projects

Setting up Maven Tycho projects for building Eclipse plugins is not trivial and building releases from that setup is much more complicated than it sounds. If you are used to release your artifacts using the Maven Release Plugin you'll get quickly frustrated if you ...

by Stanley Hillner

3 min. reading time
itemis products, Embedded, Traceability

Link artifacts across your toolchain with YAKINDU Traceability

Traceability management is required in several industries, e.g. the automotive industry, especially to comply with legal requirements such as ISO 26262. It deals with the documentation of the life of a requirement by creating bi-directional links between various ...

by Boris Holzer

6 min. reading time
itemis products, itemis CREATE, State Machine, Embedded

Working with arrays in YAKINDU Statechart Tools Professional Edition

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE With our YAKINDU Statechart Tools Professional Edition we introduced support for arrays and pointers in the C domain. Using these new features you can reference arrays and pointers from your existing ...

by René Beckmann

8 min. reading time
Automotive, Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

BMW builds AUTOSAR backbone with open source projects sponsored by itemis

On September 28th the 9th AUTOSAR Open Conference took place in Gothenburg. From an Eclipse/Open Source point of view, Bernd Jäger's (BMW) talk on their Symphony project is very interesting.

by Andreas Graf

3 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Language development on .NET with Xtext – Part 1: Overview

This blog series will illustrate the integration of a simple Xtext DSL within a .NET command-line application written in C# by using the Java-to-.NET translator IKVM.NET. In this first part of the series, we will give an overview of the example use case, a ...

by Bernhard Stadler

5 min. reading time
itemis products, Embedded, Traceability

How to analyse your project status with YAKINDU Traceability

While working in development projects it is necessary to observe the status of our project – whether to keep track ourselves or to inform our customers. Therefore, often reports have to be created what can be very time consuming and – referring to the number of ...

by Boris Holzer

6 min. reading time

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