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Statechart Tools 2.6.0 – New and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Today we released the new version 2.6.0 of YAKINDU SCT! During the last four month since the last release we invested a lot of effort in improving usability, documentation, and maturing existing features ...

by Axel Terfloth

7 min. reading time
Xtext, Software Development

Xbase Customization: Redefining operator keywords

If you use Xbase in your Xtext-based DSL, you are usually satisfied with the set of operators the expression language defines. They are closely related to what you are used to in Java or similar languages. But what if that's not enough and you need to customize ...

by Karsten Thoms

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Xtext Usability: Hovers on keywords

Xtext has become a framework not only for domain specific languages spoken, authored and read by programmers, but also by real (business-) domain experts themselves. Sometimes these people have reservations such as “a (textual) editor can never provide as much ...

by Boris Holzer

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext, Software Development

Visualize Xtext models with PlantUML

In this post I show how to (ab)use PlantUML to visualize Xtext models. Warning: This is about diagrams, not about UML.

by Boris Holzer

3 min. reading time
Xtext, Software Development

CFEngine workbench based on Eclipse and Xtext

If you're fed up with the bad usability of your server maintenance tool then this may just be the thing for you: itemis Xtext expert Boris Holzer came up with an idea of a more usability-friendly tool and prepared a screencast showing you what it's all about.

by Boris Holzer

1 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext

Xtext and itemis – the story will continue!

For nearly 8 years Xtext and itemis have been inextricably linked and regularly named in one sentence. We invested a lot to make Xtext what it is today -- a powerful and beloved framework, that helps to solve real-world problems.

by Holger Schill

2 min. reading time
itemis CREATE, Embedded

Statechart Tools 2.5.0 – New and noteworthy

Information: YAKINDU Statechart Tools Is Now itemis CREATE Today, we released the new version, 2.5.0, of YAKINDU Statechart Tools to pass the time until Christmas Eve! This is the first release of the statechart tool that has been based on the results of our ...

by Andreas Mülder

5 min. reading time
Eclipse, Xtext

Xtext 2.9 is out – Now also for IntelliJ & Web

Xtext is a new kind of language engineering toolkit, that has been around in Eclipse-land for six years already and has there helped many projects to implement domain-specific languages and general programming languages plus professional Eclipse plug-ins for them. ...

by Holger Schill

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

Get started with Xtext and Eclipse in 5 Minutes

With this post I'll demo the creation of a new Xtext project in Eclipse. I'll show you how to compile and start editors tailored to your languages for testing. Xtext offers the creation of such language-specific editors for the Eclipse platform, the IntelliJ IDEA ...

by Xtext-Team

8 min. reading time
Xtext, DSL

Get started with Xtext and IntelliJ IDEA in 5 Minutes

With this post I'll show you how to create a new Xtext project in IntelliJ IDEA. I show you how to compile and start editors tailored to your languages for testing. Within IDEA Xtext offers the creation of such language-specific editors for the IntelliJ IDEA ...

by Xtext-Team

7 min. reading time

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